Are smokers drug addicts?

most are addicted to the nicotine.
BTW - coffee, tea, soda, etc. drinkers are also addicts as most are addicted to the caffeine.

They are addicted to a drug

If you can't feel ''Normal'' without something un-needed for survival... you are addicted to it.

if you consider nicotine as an drug than yes

NICOTINE is one of the most addicting forms of drug there is..... NOT the most at all but one of them.. Its easily bought and can be found anywhere. Smokers are finding it extremely hard to kick the habit and have cravings and withdrawal for years to come.



I know this as my partner HAD SMOKED heavily for 35 years.. Two pack a day on SELF ROLLED with mental pipe tobacco.... Heavy stuff.

He had tried to quit at least 7 times that I know of unsuccessfully.. Then CHANTIX did the job in TWO WEEKS.. he has been off the cigs for over 9 months now with a few minor cravings but its controllable..... He suffered with it. HE was even having SEIZURES from to much of the carbon and other poisons in the continual cigs... THE SMOKE IS DANGEROUS AND THE POISONS ADDED IS WORSE... it can cause seizures and more. WAKE UP! Lung cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer , and the list goes off due to smoking... Its all confirmed. READ the back of the package.

Besides that SMOKING AGES YOU ! it contributes to WRINKLES and AGING. Mouth and gum decay and really really NASTY BREATH....... Lets not forget the smell on your clothes and all around you. ITS bad for your children, family , friends and coworkers... YOU are foul and spewing NASTY every time you exhale even when your not smoking. You are blowing out contaminated germs every time you breath.. Smokers contaminate the air for innocents.....

The defintion of a drug is something that makes changes in one. Cigarettes makes changes in the body in such a way that the person needs nicotine for the body to feel good. The heart speeds up and nicotine can give you a high and there are many elements and chemicals in a cigarette.

Yep, nicotine is highly addictive. It fits all the criteria, like continuing although you know it's harming you, wanting to give up and failing, withdrawal symptoms etc.

In the scientific definition; nicotine is a drug, it is addictive, and smokers crave it.

Smoking is very addictive to be sure. Not sure I would consider them "drug addicts" but I know from personal experience, cigarettes are not easy to give up.

They are addicted.

My Mother was too She had to have 4 packs a day imagine the cost of that in a month. Could not live without a Cig.

Thank Goodness I never ever smoked ! Breathing Innnnnnnnnnnnnn Ahhhhh Yep Lungs in Great Shape too

Absoutely without question.

I suppose since nicotine is a drug the answer is yes. I have been a smoker for many years so I guess that makes me a drug addict. I do believe, for me at least, it is far more than just a habit but less than the physical addiction to a drug like heroin.

It is not necessary.

To some people is is absolutely necessary. No drug is necessary, but to an addict it is.

Thank God I'm not that addict......:)

yup, I feel the same.

There is more to smoking then simple drug addiction. smoking is a social habit as well it is being part of a group, doing something with your body hands and mouth, en going out to purchase the filthy things has meaning, I am an ex smoker and have thought about this a lot, Yes in the firsts place it is a drug addiction but the socially addicting aspects of it are also very powerful.

Nicotine is a powerful drug. Don't think so? Just ask Randy Travis who walked NAKED into a convenience store to buy cigarettes!! When the clerk wouldn't give them to him, he left and got into a wreck on his way home. Yes alcohol, another drug, was involved. But Travis wasn't running around naked trying to buy beer. He wanted a smoke!

I would say so.And kicking it is about as hard as it ever gets.

nicotine is a drug

Nicatine is a drug, even though our government does not recognize it as such.

I have NEVER Smoked, And NEVER well!
It is a nasty, smelly habit, that kills! That destroys your insides and out! Skin wrinkles up! TERRIBLE HABIT!

simple...
nicotine is highly addictive-

Then redbull, 5 hour energy, and coffee drinkers are drug addicts too.

It's just not the same thing, you don't need rehab to kick cigs, a good patch and some stress management skills should be sufficient.

yes caffine is a drug.

Certainly, but that does not negative the addiction of nicotine. You are not using logic at all.

it doesn't have to be your way or no way at all. I understand that cigerettes are harmful to a body and a health care system, but to say it's a bad as heroine, crack, cocaine, or meth is a bit of a stretch.

Who said that?

By your own comment of "a good patch and some stress management skills should be sufficient", nicotine is addictive and requires deliberate detoxification in order to get through withdrawl and return to 'normal'(sic).

the question wasn't about whether nicotine is addictive, it was about whether or not it's as Bad as heavier drugs, and that perhaps smokers should be classified as Drug addicts. For me, that's too big of a leap. I don't smoke and can't stand the smell of it, so I'm not promoting it. However I think the proposition that the two are equal and alike is a fallacy of Confusing association with Causation.

They are drug addicts by definition.

The level of addiction of the lower grade drugs definitely depends on the level of consumption.

Association with the drug is the cause of the addiction.

No it is not a stretch at all. Many people are totally incapable of quitting on their own. My mother was one of them an it killed her.

Some drug addicts do not need help to stop others do. The particular drug is unimportant.

They are addicted to the drug nicotine found in tobacco.

smokers are taxed
those addicted to druggs are not

druggies do get treatment centers, while smokers get shunned and bitched about their habit

crazy world ain't it

Caffeine is a drug, and they tax my coffee and tea.

and I was told eggs are bad for me, and caclimates( not shure of spelling)
those were banned in the 70's
sweet -n- low is just that, a killer of rats
it's called choice, one can live healthy or choose not to

I don't smoke, I'm also not a smoking nazi

I like a coffee now and then, mostly rootbeer though

...and your point is...?

point is

people distroy them self in many ways
but only afew are fashionable to pick on