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Much recent debate has centred on the despised junk food market, which has now managed to climb onto the same boat as cigarettes. Both these enjoyable luxuries are still a part of so many people’s everyday lifestyle despite the warnings that constantly put them under criticism for the damaging effects to our bodies if they are not used in moderation. With all this in mind many questions arise with one in particular: What is really worse for you? Smoking 1 cigarette a day, or eating one McDonalds meal a day?

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It is clearly obvious that money is one of the main factors that cause stress. Lack of it creates anxiety, so with the shocking prices of cigarettes it can certainly be said for the full time smoker the financial benefits of smoking are zero. By weighing up a 10 per day smoker against a McDonalds meal every day we can easily conclude the cigarette smoker is still behind even when the junk food lover is buying the most expensive McDonalds set. In spite of all of this, it doesn’t really answer the one cigarette versus one McDonalds per day debate.
Continuing along the financial debate then the burger lover will be well behind as the price of one cigarette is a fraction of the price of the cheapest McDonalds meal set. In the end the monetary implications of either choice are neither here nor there as in these quantities either purchase will hardly rip a hole in your pocket, so the obvious health implications through financial strain can be eliminated.

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There are however, quite obvious concerns attached to smoking that really do seem to outweigh the unseen issues that come with eating a McDonalds. Cigarettes clearly ruin your health through not only poisoning your lungs, but clogging up your archeries linked to pumping blood to the vital organs. Junk food has also been labelled as an archery killer, but we can safely say with some confidence that it doesn’t destroy our lungs thus our ability to play sport through regulating our breathing is unaffected. This is where the real contest between the two begins.
A cigarette a day or a burger a day both contribute to clogging up your arteries plus if you don’t eat the healthy McDonalds options, then you are piling on saturated and trans-fats with a meal that provides little vitamins. There is a twist however, and that is at least one McDonalds meal provides some vitamins and fat is not always a bad thing. On the other hand cigarettes only deplete the vitamins in your body and they let off what is said to be over 4,000 separate chemicals in your body, 50 known to contribute to cancer. It is now clear that both McDonalds and cigarettes have unseen effects on human health that people either don’t know about or ignore when they partake in their seemingly luxurious comforts.

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This leads further onto the dangers between the two as far as our education of their affects on the human body comes into play. It is no secret cigarettes destroy the human body’s inner workings due to the fact all cigarette boxes now have warning labels making this notion inescapable . On the flip side junk food doesn’t come with any such caution or anything close to the visual horrors we see so often in the images used by quit smoking campaigners.
On this note it is hard to say that junk isn’t dangerous because those that do eat one burger a day have no idea what they are doing to their body whereas those that smoke a cigarette per day would have to be considered naive if they didn’t think that the cigarette was harming them in anyway. Though in the end, 4,000 chemical per day and your vitamin supply being destroyed is defiantly the least attractive option of the two.

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