Post by judyb on Mar 18, 2018 7:19:32 GMT -5
Ann (Ladyoth) on Friday, January 12, 2001 - 04:14 pm:
Tobacco's sick trick...
If tobacco kills 11,000 people a day, why do so many people still smoke?
Nicotine.
Once you become addicted to tobacco, it's very hard to quit. The nicotine in
cigarettes and chewing tobacco is as addictive as cocaine or heroin. 90% of
adult smokers start before age 18. And each year, only 3% of all smokers who
try to quit have long-term success.
Approximately seven seconds after you take a puff from a cigarette or a dip of
chewing tobacco, nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream and begins to
affect certain areas of the brain. Once these areas are affected, they create
more and more nicotine receptors, which crave more and more nicotine.
Tobacco companies know it is addictive. In fact, they're counting on it. Want
more proof? Here's just a sample of the evidence we dug up:
1. Internal memos from tobacco companies indicate tobacco executives knew
nicotine was addictive by 1960's.
2. Throughout the 1070's, tobacco companies conducted experiments on
laboratory animals. They were looking for the amount of nicotine that would
make smoking most pleasurable for human smokers.
3. Marloboro adds ammonia to its tobacco to create more "free" nicotine,
which reaches your brain faster.
4. Lucky Strike and Pall Mall are two of the nine brands that contained Y-1.
This genetically altered super tobacco has twice the addictive power of
normal tobacco.
*When you become addicted to tobacco, you lose control over that part of
your life. You lose a lot of freedom. You lose the freedom to live a long,
healthy life. You lose the freedom to think clearly, because you become
consumed with thinking about that next cigarette or chew. And you lose the
freedom of choice. After all, you chose to start smoking, you didn't choose to
become addicted.
posted on QuitNet, Angelface
Tobacco's sick trick...
If tobacco kills 11,000 people a day, why do so many people still smoke?
Nicotine.
Once you become addicted to tobacco, it's very hard to quit. The nicotine in
cigarettes and chewing tobacco is as addictive as cocaine or heroin. 90% of
adult smokers start before age 18. And each year, only 3% of all smokers who
try to quit have long-term success.
Approximately seven seconds after you take a puff from a cigarette or a dip of
chewing tobacco, nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream and begins to
affect certain areas of the brain. Once these areas are affected, they create
more and more nicotine receptors, which crave more and more nicotine.
Tobacco companies know it is addictive. In fact, they're counting on it. Want
more proof? Here's just a sample of the evidence we dug up:
1. Internal memos from tobacco companies indicate tobacco executives knew
nicotine was addictive by 1960's.
2. Throughout the 1070's, tobacco companies conducted experiments on
laboratory animals. They were looking for the amount of nicotine that would
make smoking most pleasurable for human smokers.
3. Marloboro adds ammonia to its tobacco to create more "free" nicotine,
which reaches your brain faster.
4. Lucky Strike and Pall Mall are two of the nine brands that contained Y-1.
This genetically altered super tobacco has twice the addictive power of
normal tobacco.
*When you become addicted to tobacco, you lose control over that part of
your life. You lose a lot of freedom. You lose the freedom to live a long,
healthy life. You lose the freedom to think clearly, because you become
consumed with thinking about that next cigarette or chew. And you lose the
freedom of choice. After all, you chose to start smoking, you didn't choose to
become addicted.
posted on QuitNet, Angelface