yes "nicotine" the drug that is in all tobacco products, cigarettes, black and milds, blunts, chew and pipe tobacco. Nicotine is very addictive and has the highest relapse rate (means people try to stop and go back)of ANY drug including heroin. now this is slightly warped static due to cigarettes being so available compared to other drugs but none the less it is a significant fact for anyone thinking of starting smoking or who has loved ones trying to quit, not to mention it is a learned behavior which is repeated frequently for so long it becomes a habit much like trying to quit biting nails and comparable to the difficulty of strict dieting to quit not even considering the addictive nature of the nicotine itself.
Smoking is no longer considered cool, at one time it was a sign a person was daring, out of the norm, an indication they were a challenging individual. However this has changed over the last 10 yrs or so. Now the criminals, bad guys, uncool people in videos smoke and the cool people, the hero's or star's rarely do, a clear sign that society has changed its view on smoking. I am a smoker and for what its worth trying to quit this week, but I have seen the view of society change over the last few years from fairly acceptable to gross, uncool, weak and disgusting (this is not my view but it is increasingly the way I see myself being treated for smoking). It began when restaurants banned smoking, then jobs, now some states are smoke free, it in fact now its quite uncool to smoke and absurdly stupid to start even without considering the prices constantly raising.
