"A lot of people still think e-cigarettes are not harmful. But studies show that nicotine is, pound for pound, as addictive as heroin." @Surgeon_General Jerome Adams at #CADCAForum Meet and Greetpic.twitter.com/1NhxnXNdll
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Many folks focus on “harm” as a defining component of addiction, but addiction in not only about harm. Here is
@ASAMorg definition. https://www.asam.org/resources/definition-of-addiction …
When people speak of the addictive properties of nicotine, much of the focus is on dependence- and a large number of addiction experts feel and consistently state nicotine is one of if not the most dependence creating substance.
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People also question the relative harm of nicotine to other substances. I don’t think it’s a good idea to compare harm. Someone’s loved on dying of smoking or their kid unable to focus in school because of e cig dependence, or their loved one overdosing are all “harm” to someone.
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But again in terms of dependence, I think it is important that all people, especially young people, realize nicotine in both cigarettes and newer e-cigarettes can create rapid dependence, which can lead to harm.
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Actually... "Paradoxically, however, in animal models of reinforcement nicotine appears weak compared to other abused drugs."https://www.nature.com/articles/1300586 …
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Also... "Nicotine is the major neuroactive compound of tobacco, which has, by itself, weak reinforcing properties."http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/38/8593.full …
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Yes, because they cannot mentally separate it from tobacco, with all its other 'goodies'. Public Health bears much of the blame for this, through years of smoker-bashing, and Nick-O-Teen propaganda. Smoking is much more addictive than nicotine alone.
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Research from world-renown nicotine researchers Karl Fagerström and former
#TPSAC member Thomas Eissenberg: nicotine dependence varies with delivery. Smoking highest https://tinyurl.com/y3ths8dv and https://tinyurl.com/ybr6wsoj pic.twitter.com/VW4ZeS9twy
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