| Contrary to the common belief that smoking addiction | | | | regarding the ill-behavior. It is true that most smokers |
| is not comparable to alcohol or marijuana addiction, the | | | | do not resort to ill and deviant behaviors to maintain |
| truth is that nicotine addiction can be equally as strong | | | | their dependency, but this is so because most |
| and deadly as any of these other addictions. In fact, if | | | | smokers do manage to easily obtain the full |
| you calculate the total number of people who die | | | | complement of cigarettes they need to satisfy their |
| yearly of all other addictions combined, they would not | | | | addiction. But when the time comes that smokers are |
| add up to the total number of premature deaths | | | | deprived of easy accessibility to cigarettes, the |
| attributed to cigarette smoking. | | | | situation becomes totally different and ill-behaviors |
| The most active ingredient in a cigarette and the one | | | | arise. |
| that is involved in causing the heavy addictive | | | | It is curious to observe these behaviors, as for |
| characteristics of tobacco is the naturally occurring | | | | example during WW II, in many concentration camps in |
| liquid alkaloid better known as Nicotine. | | | | Germany, prisoners by rule were not given enough |
| And it's a fact that tolerance to this drug usually | | | | food to fulfill minimum caloric nutritional requirements, so |
| develops. With the consequence that increasingly | | | | they were literally starving to death. A common and |
| larger doses become necessary with time to achieve | | | | notorious practice among smoking prisoners was |
| the same desired effects. Smokers experience this | | | | trading away their scarce food rations for cigarettes |
| addictive phenomenon as their cigarette consumption | | | | to smoke (!). Even today, in underdeveloped countries, |
| gradually increases from what was a sporadic and | | | | such as Bangladesh, many parents with starving |
| occasional use at the beginning to a required daily | | | | children are willing to sacrify essential food for their |
| consumption of one or many more packs. | | | | children in order to buy cigarettes. This is in no way a |
| An addictive substance, in this case Nicotine, becomes | | | | normal behavior. |
| a totally consuming necessity to its user, usually | | | | For many smokers, even a day without Nicotine is |
| resulting in what is considered by our societies as an | | | | excruciating. Statistics indicate that every year, millions |
| anti-social behavior. A number of people have argued | | | | of people try to break the nicotine habit but only 10 |
| that cigarette smoking fails to fulfill this requirement | | | | percent of them succeed. Will you succeed? |