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Articles: Jack E Henningfield, Christine A Rose, and Mitch Zeller Tobacco industry litigation position on addiction: continued dependence on past views Tob Control 2006; 15: iv27-36iv [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

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'Smoking is addictive"

Norbert Hirschhorn   (28 November 2006)

'Smoking is addictive" 28 November 2006
Norbert Hirschhorn, independent researcher Lecturer, Yale School of Public Health Send letter to journal: Re: 'Smoking is addictive" bertzpoet{at}yahoo.com Norbert Hirschhorn	The paper by Henningfield, Rose and Zeller is an important contribution to understanding the all-too-clever manipulation of language by tobacco industry in defending its manufacture and marketing of an addictive product. It is useful to note, as on the authors' Table 1, that while the industry now publicly acknowldeges that cigarette smoking is addictive, it never mentions nicotine as the principal addictive agent. The former attribution puts the onus on the smoker who can choose to be addicted or not; the latter would require the industry to be responsible.