Sales of “Diet Pills” Booming In Lebanon

And the Lebanese are remarkably strategic in using them:

Women start requesting weight-loss products in the beginning of the winter season to achieve maximum weight loss by summer, which causes a remarkable increase in demand for these pills and raises our profits, ” said Joelle Akawi, pharmacist at Espace 2000 in Kaslik.

As Nasri Atallah so beautifully wrote on Lebanese addiction to appearance enhancement:

[We have become] vacuous shells that tick all the boxes of what beauty should be, yet are entirely and profoundly ugly in every way. We’ve become walking versions of the post-war shiny yet soulless architecture we’ve chosen for this city. Amnesia on legs, a grotesque carnival freak-show.