Sugar is Not the “New Tobacco”
As an endocrinologist who is also an anti-smoking advocate, seeing the title "Are sugar-sweetened drinks the new tobacco?" on the cover of my April 2018 CMAJ immediately drew my ire. While "orange is the new black" or "fifty is the new forty" [I hope so!] may be harmless commonly-used axioms, we, as medical professionals, should be more careful when publicly drawing equivalencies in matters of public health. The increasingly common comparison o
