The 1964 report did not label nicotine as addictive, referring to it instead as a substance used habitually, like coffee
So this is one of the reasons why I think we have to look at social connection as bigger than a health issue, but as one of the core pillars of society that helps us enhance the economy, the education, the health and wellbeing of individuals, and when it is weak as it has been disintegrating around the world, as we have shifted more of our offline connection to online, as we spend less and less time with one another, as our ability to dialogue has disintegrated, then that just has profound consequences for society
Nicotine patches, gum and nasal sprays may be an option
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Smoking tobacco causes nearly 480,000 deaths per one year: almost 130,000 of them are caused by the lung cancer