Hacker News: zerro4https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zerro4Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:11:11 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by zerro4 in "US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods"]]>Keep in mind that the negative effects (beyond the coughing and diminished lung capacity) of cigarettes have only been publicly admitted to and explicitly taught only very recently in the history of tobacco.

The tobacco industry fought tooth and nail against any suggestion that tobacco products are linked to cancer and even advertised cigarettes as healthy.

I agree with you in principle. I would caution against taking for granted what we know today to be very clearly unhealthy and cancer-causing. It is often an up-hill decades long battle against incredibly wealthy interests to get to the truth.

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