[Brad from Tennessee]

“Interdisciplinary research in pharmacology, psychology, physiology and neurobiology is just beginning to shed light on the incredible hold that tobacco has on people. Scientists have found, for instance, that nicotine is as addictive as heroin, cocaine or amphetamines, and for most people more addictive than alcohol. Its hooks go deep, involving complex physiological and psychological mechanisms that drive and maintain smoking behavior and that even produce some ‘’good’’ effects, such as improved performance on intellectual, computational and stressful tasks.”

—New York Times, 3-29-87

Nicotine addiction should be classified and treated the same way other forms of chemical dependency are approached in ObamaCare.

Again, it's evident that this law was written by people with no knowledge of how health care works in the real world.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/nicotine-harder-to-kickthan-heroin.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

[rarestia]

for most people more addictive than alcohol

Yet... alcohol will NEVER be included as a substance of issue in this "law" because it's "protected" by the Bill of Rights.

Bunch of petty tyrants, the lot of them.

[Oldexpat]

How will they determine that you are a smoker? Send an inspector to smell your house? When your Dr. asks you questions..smoke? drinks? guns? No No No.