| The Tobacco Reference Guide
|
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 20 Nicotine and Addiction |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| Nicotine and Addiction: Historical |
| globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
| When the supply of cigarettes is limited, cigarette smokers behave much like heroin |
| addicts. During extreme deprivation in Germany after World War II, "the majority of the |
| habitual smokers preferred to do without food even under extreme conditions of |
| nutrition rather than to forego tobacco. Thus, when food rations in prisoner-of-war |
| camps were down to 900-1000 calories, smokers were still willing to barter their food |
| rations for tobacco." |
| Licit and Illicit Drugs, p. 226 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| A British former World War II prisoner of war wrote: "The one thing that men were |
| unable to give up was cigarette smoking. There was a very active market in bartering |
| the handful of rice we received daily for the two cigarettes we were given. I have |
| actually seen men die of starvation because they had sold their food for cigarettes." |
| Smoking: the Artificial Passion, David Krogh, W.H. Freeman, 1991 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| In 1969, the Philip Morris vice president for research and development noted that |
| smokers' craving for cigarettes is so strong that "the cigarette will even preempt food |
| in times of scarcity." |
| Lung Cancer, Vol. 18, 1997, p. 5 (Clifford Douglas) |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| One internal Philip Morris report concluded that smokers crave nicotine more than |
| food. |
| Associated Press, July 25, 1995 |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| A New Yorker cartoon from the 1940's showed Christopher Columbus smoking a |
| peace pipe with the West Indian natives and the comment from one of his men: "Don't |
| worry. If it turns out tobacco is harmful, we can always quit." |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| Page 33 of 38 |
| globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
First page
of this chapter
Previous
page of this chapter
Next page
of this chapter |