system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If nicotine is legal for adults, why isn't it put in products like 5 Hour Energy or electrolyte water or even vegetables?
gpt
Uh, because people would stop buying those products pretty damn quickly and their producers would be hugely demonized for putting harmful, addictive additives in their product to the detriment of their customers for their own benefit. Also, for many products (like food) it would just straight up be illegal.