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It sounds like you aren't very familiar with the research on tobacco addiction. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002204260203200220 https://journals.sa
by kragen 13d ago
It sounds like you aren't very familiar with the research on tobacco addiction.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002204260203200220 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002204260203200220
https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-3-health-effects/3-36-health-effects-of-occasional-smoking https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-3-health-effec...
The majority of smokers did get addicted to nicotine, but significant percentages did not. However, it is true that even many "non-daily" smokers died from cancer as a result of their smoking.
- runarberg 13d agoI know that research on tobacco is full of bad science and bad actors, and experts in different fields (such as social psychology) continued to publish bad science on the topic well into the 2000s. This includes your 2002 German paper (which I can’t read because of a paywall). Your second source says nothing about addiction in the chapter you posted, however they do talk about addiction in chapter 6, and they claim that most people agree that smoking is addictive, but heavy smoking is more addictive.
- Windchaser 10d agoStill, (chiming in), your claim that " I am also sure that every single one of them did indeed get addicted to nicotine, and many of them died from cancer" could use some evidence to back it up. My understanding is that only about 35% of those who ever try nicotine become addicted. If you are going to instead say that nearly everyone who smokes occasionally will become addicted, you need to back it up with evidence, because it's not apparent.