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The health warning (a little late to be of any use if one can read it when it is in their hands) on a package of cigarettes reads: Cigarettes are Highly Addictive. Well this must be news to the billion people that smoke. This will be a great salve to their minds that have been continually troubled by their failure to quit or even to reduce the amount smoked. The damned things are highly addictive, that explains it.

Wait, the warning goes on to say: Studies show that tobacco can be harder to quit than heroin or cocaine. Well now, is that a fact? And there is even money on the fact that those studies (what it took more than one?) cost someone a lot of money to learn a fact that has been apparent to every junkie since the beginning of time.

Heroin and cocaine are illegal, so we are told by big government, because they are addicting. The users take the drug and then become addicted and then are continually having to 'feed' their habit. So, thank you Big Government for saving us, by decree and draconian enforcement, from being drug slaves.

Wait! Didn't those studies say that tobacco and hence nicotine are more addicting than the above drugs? And haven't facts proved that hundreds of thousands of deaths are directly related to tobacco use, compared to a few thousands to the use of the other drugs. And doesn't Big Government tell the world that by banning heroin and cocaine that the world is a safer place for the citizens of the world?

Isn't that a contradiction? Doesn't that fly in the face of logic? The idea of banning one type of drugs by a certain criterion but not the other type? Most especially when the health costs and death toll from tobacco, which are so well known and documented, is far greater than for any other drug on the planet.

Does it have anything to do with the fact that the immediate effects of heroin and cocaine are pleasurable? That no one should be addicted to anything 'pleasurable', because any smoker will tell that there is no real pleasure in smoking cigarettes. Does it have to do with where the raw materials for heroin and cocaine are grown which is far outside the taxing influence of Big Government?

Does it have anything to do with (whisper it) money?