Your Free Market
Aug 31st, 2006 at 8:55 am by Susie
Everyone knows nicotine isn’t addictive, people have free will, and nobody made that 12-year-old pick up a cigarette.
Uh huh:
The amount of nicotine in most cigarettes rose an average of almost 10 percent from 1998 to 2004, with brands most popular with young people and minorities registering the biggest increases and highest nicotine content, according to a new study.
Nicotine is highly addictive, and while no one has studied the effect of the increases on smokers, the higher levels theoretically could make new smokers more easily addicted and make it harder for established smokers to quit. [...]
The nicotine in Marlboro products, preferred by two-thirds of high school smokers, increased 12 percent. Kool lights increased 30 percent. Two-thirds of African American smokers use menthol brands.
I love smoking and the extra nicotine only makes it that much better.