Sugarettes – great name – I wish I had thought of that! I totally agee with your assessment about these parallels. In fact I wrote a post in July in which I considered whether our ancestral past ill-equips us to consider the implications of the slow-burn damage from things like sugar and tobacco – I’d be really interested in your views:

Cigarettes, Sugar and our Innate Short-Termism

Keep up the good work – looking forward to reading your book.

I wrote a post in August