When Professor David Nutt, director of psychopharmacology in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College, London, asked a panel of addiction experts to rank which drugs they believed were most addictive, they said the most addictive drugs were heroin, cocaine, nicotine, barbiturates and alcohol, The Conversation reports. 1
government began to require warning labels on packs of cigarettes
however, whats a little less well known is the range of chemicals contained within cigarette smoke that can lead to carcinogenic (cancer causing) effects, and what other effects they can have on the body
S Tushingham, JW Eerkens, Hunter-gatherer tobacco smoking in Ancient North America: Current chemical evidence and a framework for future studies