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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: why do we have to take pills by swallowing the thint whole, why can't we chew them or something more comfortable.
gpt
1. Taste. The chemicals in pills taste god awful  
2. Many pills are designed in a way that they release the medication in a controlled way. Chewing these pills would break this slow release process.  
3. Seriously, pills taste insanely bad. Have you ever chewed one? Gross.