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To the contrary, scientists with no financial ties to the tobacco industry have argued that the question is not one of defining addiction, but rather one of defining the properties of nicotine itself
According to Alta DeRoo, M.D., former Naval Flight Officer, board-certified addiction medicine physician and obstetrician-gynecologist, and the chief medical officer of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, We do offer smoking cessation programming and we do prescribe NRT [nicotine replacement therapy] or anti-craving medications if a patient would like to stop smoking. Nicotine Is Much Like Other Drugs of Abuse Nicotine is highly addictivemore so than alcohol, but less than heroin or cocaine, addictions which have many more slips and relapses than successes
By stopping a generation from taking up smoking, the country of five million hoped to avoid about 5,000 preventable deaths a year
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