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They also designed it to be more addictive. The recommended dosage and timing causes the patients to repeatedly experience minor withdrawal during normal use,
by hedora 2y ago
They also designed it to be more addictive. The recommended dosage and timing causes the patients to repeatedly experience minor withdrawal during normal use, which is a standard technique for conditioning someone into being an addict.
All of this is documented in emails that were presented as evidence in court.
- elzbardico 2y agoThey learned it from the tobacco industry probably.
- ARandomerDude 2y agoIs there a recommended dosage and timing from the tobacco industry?
- elzbardico 2y agoIt was in jest. But part of the problem with nicotine that helps to lead to addiction is its short half-life. If you are a smoker you experience several episodes of abstinence throughout the day, so you lit just another one.
- dns_snek 2y agoYes - sort of. Many of the additives found in cigarettes are designed to increase the rate of absorption of nicotine. This gives you a distinct rush within seconds of consumption, as well as a more pronounced crash that triggers intense cravings. That's very different from the effects of (freebase?) nicotine typically found in e-cigarettes which is slower to absorb and doesn't have a noticeable crash.
- FireBeyond 2y agoDesigned it knowingly to be more addictive WHILE producing physician literature that denied or downplayed addiction risk.