Q: Do you consider yourself addicted to cigarettes or not?
A staggering 72% of smokers surveyed considered themselves addicted. (Of course this may be a coping mechanism...If it's addicting it isn't their fault.)
Posted on 03/24/2014 12:12:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It can be bought on the Internet in flavors like chocolate and bubble gum—and just a teaspoon could kill a child: The New York Times takes a look at liquid nicotine, the e-liquid used in e-cigarettes, which it describes as a "powerful neurotoxin ... far more dangerous than tobacco." And with good reason: Reports of accidental liquid nicotine poisonings rose 300% from 2012 to 1,351 cases last year, with 2014's figure expected to be double that.
The victims, many children under the age of four, can experience vomiting and seizures after being exposed to even a modest amount orally or through the skin.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune notes that the bottles often convey their flavors with potentially enticing photos of fruits or chocolate, which could attract youngsters; teens, on the flip side, may be combining it with energy drinks to get high, per Fox News Insider.
"It's not a matter of if a child will be seriously poisoned or killed. It's a matter of when," says a director with California's Poison Control System.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
yup.
At a younger age the buzz was important. Now I love wine for the flavor, and enjoy beer that was meant to be consumed slowly. Had a bottle of Duvel with dinner tonight and it took me an hour to finish it. Very different from my college days.
Are you conflating poor people with smokers? The two are HIGHLY correlated. But many, many poor people don't smoke.
My idea of a dinner’s worth of wine is 1 or 2 glasses, as well. So that’s a lot less than a bottle. But once I get into the dull zone, there’s no desire to keep it up. Dull is dull. Might as well want to take sleeping pills with dinner as go into a third glass of wine.
So is global warming....
Global warming is real. So is global cooling. Blaming it on humans, however, is the height of junk science. Your suggestion is in no way analogous to nicotine being highly addictive.
Smokers can absolutely be behaviorally addicted to smoking. The aroma of smoke can be addicting as well as the feeling of actually inhaling the smoke. I know lots of people who have to have a smoke after eating, when they drink, after sex and on and on.
Comparing nicotine addiction to food cravings means you're not being serious, and it is a serious issue. The word "addiction" is used very loosely today -- as when people claim they are "addicted" to exercise, chocolate, or the internet. Addiction is a medical term referring to compulsive, habitual use of a substance that has physiological effects but is not necessary for survival. Addictive substances produce tolerance (meaning that it takes an increasing amount of the substance to produce the desired effect) and physical dependence -- and unpleasant symptoms of withdrawal if use is discontinued. The nicotine in cigarettes fits all these criteria. Food does not.
Are you really that dense? Obviously you are. Either that, or you have a HUGE reading comprehension problem.
Never mind, we all know what a reading comprehension problem you have. We're just not sure if it is as large as your fact comprehension problem.
So you are refusing to answer the question about smoking while pregnant. Now you are ducking the question of why smokers use scarce money to buy cigarettes while their children are hungry or need medicine.
Attacking me isn’t answering the question...
Gabz does not want to say smoking is a vile habit. I got in Gabz’s face years ago about that (I think I came up with 10 ways smoking was vile) and Gabz complained and I was briefly banned.
But I don’t believe in banning smoking.
I told you why. You won’t acknowledge anything that I said.
If nicotine is as highly addictive as so many, including you now, claim it to be, why is it that so many people have no withdrawal effects for any forms of nicotine other than tobacco?
My reference to global warming had to do with the concept that it is "accepted science."
Smokers can absolutely be behaviorally addicted to smoking.
Thus proving that it is an habituation, not an addiction until the definition of the word was changed to include smoking - by the same people who decided homosexuality was not an abnormality.
Q: Do you consider yourself addicted to cigarettes or not?
A staggering 72% of smokers surveyed considered themselves addicted. (Of course this may be a coping mechanism...If it's addicting it isn't their fault.)
A bad habit, yes - vile as in your terms, you are correct, I will not agree with that.
I got in Gabz’s face years ago about that (I think I came up with 10 ways smoking was vile) and Gabz complained and I was briefly banned.
If you are claiming I had you put on a time out, you are sorely mistaken. I can count on one hand, with fingers left over, how many times I have complained to the powers that be about anti-smoker zealots, and neither of your names were ever in them.
But I don’t believe in banning smoking.
Actually, you do.
Was that “survey” done before or after you homo lovers changed the definition of addiction to include the habituation of enjoying tobacco products?
I wouldn’t ban smoking any more than banning overeating, a vice I am all too prone to. That’s silly and paranoid on your part.
I would speak up in the social frown upon it.
Interesting...........
Maybe it’s the nicotine telling you that I’d ban you from smoking. Like calories telling me that you’d ban me from overeating, except that I can burn calories by exercising. Can you burn nicotine that way?
1)Position on smoking while pregnant.
2)Why smokers use scarce money to buy cigarettes while their children are hungry or need medicine.
3)Why 72% of smokers consider themselves addicts.
You are so right. I broke the habit (or thought I did) about four years ago and enjoyed the freedom---didn't miss the smokes. Sadly, because of physical problems and frustration, I caved in to temptation.
If you have any words of encouragement for me, I'd love to hear them.
Thanks for saying that, Tallguy. I really think the anti-smoking people are oblivious to their own imperfections---but they sure have them! I say, clean up your own acts and, as my mother often said, "Mind your own business".
Thanks for seeing the big picture. Sounds like you don’t have a hateful ax to grind.
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