it takes nowhere near as long to get addicted to nicotine as does to get hooked on riding the horse....
i dont know anyone thats robbed there grandma of the family jewelry to buy another pack of cigs.
" " " " that has pimped out some young, unsuspecting teenage girl to a suddenly shortened life of prostitution to get another cig.
" " " " that goes dumpster diving for food, because they spent ALL there money on cigs.
" " " " thats gotten HIV, Hep C, Syphillis, or any other fatal diseases from sharing a cig.
" " " " thats laid on the sidewalk drooling all over themselves in a pile of puke for 6 hours because they smoked too many cigs.
" " " " that displays malaria like symptoms when they havent had a cig for 24 hours.
" " " " that can only be around other cig smokers, because they are too ashamed to let anyone see what smoking has done to them.
" " " " that has lost a leg from infections caused by neglect, from smoking too many cigs.
" " " " that has squandered a lifes work of savings, lost a business, alienated themselves from there friends and families, and ended up a bum on the street begging for quarters at intersections because they cant stay away from cigs.
i could easily add 100 more of these... but it just makes me sad typing them, because every one of the above statements are true, they have happened to people I know whose lives were touched by heroin. someone that compares nicotine addiction to heroin addiction is completely naive....
cigs are bad. nicotine, is nasty, deadly, additive shit, no doubt... but its nowhjere near as dangerous or all encompassing as a heroin addiction can become.
some advise-
stay away from heroin.
the only reason the shit wont go away, is because everything about it, is fucking evil.
remember that, and it might greatly change your life someday for the better... and if your lucky, you wont even know it.