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...varying amounts in all cigarettes, does not create a habit so powerful that it impairs a person's ability to quit. But the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that nicotine is an addictive substance. A Surgeon General's report has concluded it is as addictive as heroin or cocaine...
...people to come forward and register tiger parts and rhino horn has been embarrassingly small. Allan Thornton of the EIA says past efforts to enforce the law consisted of uniformed police asking pharmacies whether they had tiger bone -- something like having cops ask drug dealers whether they are carrying heroin...
Smoking opponents have been petitioning the FDA to regulate cigarettes as a drug ever since 1988, when the Surgeon General confirmed that the nicotine contained in tobacco is an addictive drug, creating a dependence similar to those caused by heroin and cocaine. After considering the issue for years, the FDA finally responded late last month. In a letter to the Coalition on Smoking or Health, an alliance of groups that oppose smoking, FDA Commissioner David Kessler acknowledged that there was ample reason to apply drug laws to cigarettes. Wrote Kessler: "Although technology was developed years ago to remove nicotine from...
...wants to get out of the racket. His older, helpless brother, Raynathan, desperately wants him to stay because he needs his guidance. Roemello wants to leave the neighborhood where the nightmares that plague him occurred; he witnessed his father's beating by the cops, his mother's heroin overdose, his father's further demise through addiction. Yet all of these scenes enter the film at seemingly random times. They give background to the plot but seem only to exist as plot fixtures. We get glimpses of the tragedies, which have happened but do not see any real connection between what...
...have to quit cold turkey. We could start with marijuana, then ease up on cocaine and heroin possession, concentrating law enforcement on the big- time pushers. Take it slowly, see how it feels. One day at a time...