Addiction is a disease, but it is caused by a choice - the choice to use it for the first time.
Addiction is not a choice, whether or not its a disease is debatable. The person whom it afflicts has no choice of whether or not they get addicted, except whether they are using the substance that they could get addicted to.
No. There are chemicals added to tobacco in cigaretts that aid and strengthen physical addiction.
as an addiction
Caffeine and tobacco are a legal form of an addiction.
Tobacco is the entire plant that is grown, smoked, or chewed. It has a number of harmful irritants and wiill cause disease when used especially when smoked. Nicotine is one chemical of tobacco that is addictive and is the reason we seek it out. When you use only nicotine (separate from tobacco ) there are minimal health consequences-only addiction.
The theory that addiction is a disease is controversial.
The theory that addiction is a disease is controversial.
No it is not.
drug users
True. Nicotine is the primary addictive substance in tobacco, leading to physical dependence and reinforcing the behavior of smoking or using tobacco products. While other factors, such as social and environmental influences, play a role in tobacco addiction, nicotine's effects on the brain are central to the addiction process.
Nicotine itself causes no diseases except nicotine addiction. The other chemicals associated with tobacco cause heart disease, lung and throat cancer, emphysema, and have been implicated in high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries, to name a few.
Nicotine is the highly addictive drug found in tobacco. It has been said that nicotine addiction is one of the hardest addictions to beat, acting in a similar way as heroin or cocaine addiction.