Chapter 20 Nicotine and Addiction

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Nicotine and Addiction: Historical

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"I have often wished that every individual afflicted with this artificial passion can force

himself to try but for three months (to quit). I'm sure that it would turn every tobacco

land into a wheat field and add five years to the average human life."

John Quincy Adams, 1830 (No Stranger to Tears, p. 329)

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"Nicotine had been identified and accepted as the cause of tobacco's toxic properties

as early as the 1860s. Laboratory experiments had graphically proven its poisonous

qualities: A few drops of pure nicotine injected into a small animal was enough to kill

it, and as an insecticide, nicotine had few equals."

Tobacco Advertising, p. 238

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"The habit once established gives rise to more or less craving for this form of

indulgence."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, about 1870 (Ashes to Ashes, p. 38)

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"While all forms of smoking are injurious, it has been found that the use of the

cigarette is more harmful than the cigar or pipe. It so seriously undermines the power

of self-control that persons once addicted to its use very often find it impossible to

break up and abandon the habit."

Primer of Physiology and Hygiene, William Thayer Smith, about 1880

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"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one

unsatisfied."

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, 1891

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