Smoking used to be a gigantic health issue and still is. Smoking causes lung cancer and other common causes of death, however over the past decades it has gone down significantly. While the number of people smoking has decreased the number of proccessed foods has gone sky high. Researchers now-a-days say that junk food is a greater problem now then smoking ever was. They are the leading causes to serious diseases such as obesity and type two diabetes. People don't realize how serious this issue is because what the heck whats a little chocolate bar going to do. However when these little chocolate bars gather up and you are eating two to three chocolate bars a day, with a few slices of pizza and some chips and pop on the side it makes five days a week it makes a huge impact on your health. This issue has gotten so bad that junk food companies had to start using similar tactics that smoking companies had to start using. In my opinion the junk food companies are a lot worse at this than the smoking companies were. Tobacco companies targeted young adults and adults which is bad but at least they didn't target innocent kids. Junk food companies on the other hand spend a large amount of their budget for advertising innocent little children, getting them hooked and helping them on their way to obesity. In conclusion yes junk foods are as bad as cigarettes in some cases they are actually a lot worse.