These are the same kind of vague, hand wavy distractions that would have been used to excuse or muddy the waters around tobacco 30 years ago. "Probably just stress" is not an excuse that explains the systemic health problems that come from excess sugar.
Has bigSugar been tweaking the formula of the additives used to make the product more addicting? Let’s not forget how heinous bigTobacco behaved.
Refining corn into high fructose corn syrup still isn’t the same to me, but their lobbying campaigning is the same. If it comes out that they have knowledge of adverse effects of their product and still pushed that hard, then they should be dealt with in the harshest of punishment.
Otherwise, comparison to bigTobacco isn’t quite right
Additives have nothing to do with it and are a complete distraction. Sugar has detrimental health effects and excessive sugar has more extreme health effects. The important thing now is that this is accepted and understood instead of people casting doubt like "maybe it's just stress".
Of course they have knowledge of the adverse effects of sugar and are lobbying to prevent any legislation trying to curtail putting it into literally everything
