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Tobacco Is Addictive
In the US, tobacco became so popular that it was used as currency, when bartering for goods. Because of its popularity, the early settlers created fire-curing and charcoal-curing, as a way to extend tobacco's shelf life when the product was being shipped across the seas. Television addicts are a relatively new breed, especially since television itself has only been around for about 50 years, nowhere near as long as alcohol, tobacco and drugs.
Tobacco is a little different because the substance itself is addictive. In 1990, 50 percent of the mortality (over 1-million deaths annually) in the United States from the 10 leading causes of death was linked to addictive behaviors such as tobacco use, poor dietary habits and activity, alcohol misuse, illicit drug use, and risky sexual practices.
Smoking Is Addictive
I started smoking when I was a sophomore in college, one cigarette a night so I could sleep. After three months of smoking one cigarette a day I was hooked. It is at this point that the act of smoking becomes addictive, not because of the smoke itself, but because of the substance in it called nicotine. But, during the middle of the 20th century, health officials started to be concerned about how cigarette smoking was affecting the publics' health. In 1964, the US Surgeon General issued a report stating that there was relationship between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer.
There is no need to go into the harm that this kind of smoking does to the body common sense tells you that smoking is bad for you.
By Richard Davis Waterhouse