Subject: Is Smoking an Addiction?
From: Colin B.
Date: 10/24/2006 6:05:28 PM
Corso <corso@post.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Why is stopping smoking so difficult?
>
> Is smoking cigarettes an addiction? If it is an addiction - smokers
> are addicts and would require treatment. Right?
Three points:
- Nicotine is a physiologically addictive compound.
- Smoking cigarettes is a habit.
- There is no guarantee of treatment for addiction in Canada, that I'm
aware of.
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