Soon Fast Food Could Be As Safe As Smoking

Yeah, sure, why not? “Customers of fast food restaurants could be offered a free statin along with the burger, salt and ketchup, to mitigate the meal’s damaging effects on the heart, doctors suggest. Providing the cholesterol lowering drug with every burger would help combat its artery clogging tendency, they say. The statin would perform a function equivalent to a filter on a cigarette or a seat-belt in a car. People will continue to pursue unhealthy habits but with a slightly reduced risk.”