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> Sounds like an easy habit to kick! This is an odd view on the nature of physical addiction. I personally know more smokers that hate their smoking than smoke

• pizza 9y ago
  I think addiction itself acts as a vastly profitable and effortlessly marketable boogeyman today, moreso than a Sisyphean defect of the human condition, if you catch my drift... > "[...] the wound itself is its own healing when seen from another standpoint." [0] > "As for smoking tobacco, Shapiro argues that quitting is hard because smoking does not disrupt the smoker's life, not because of the mild effects of nicotine on the brain" [1] etc. I expect up-in-arms responses to views like mine, but even neuropharmacologically, speaking there is really less of a danger to ~"the disease known as addiction"~ than there is to codifying addiction as a metonym for "sepulcher for all the lost people". I say this for all substances, even something as malicious and unforgiving as carfentanil.. [0] https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/slavoj-zizek-spirit-as-the-wound-of-nature/ https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/slavoj-zize... [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=dcK6-h1ngtcC&pg=PA281&lpg=PA281&dq=thomas+szasz+smoking&source=bl&ots=w-elZIXT1r&sig=7dN33QPdgt-KA68rkWqdYC0mAyo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwic56W5hLHYAhVKx1QKHesNA_cQ6AEITzAE#v=onepage&q=thomas%20szasz%20smoking&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=dcK6-h1ngtcC&pg=PA281&lpg=...