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Almost every smoker has been told that he is “addicted”. What is addiction? How has the concept of addiction “evolved” from the classic image of the heroin user with the syringe in his arm to the smoker with a cigarette in his hand or the fat man enjoying a hamburger? This is what the studies and articles in this section are exploring.

Estimating the health consequences of replacing cigarettes with nicotine inhalers | W. Sumner, II
Article Published: 2003

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Tobacco Control 2003; 12:124-132

Keywords: nicotine, inhaler, smoking cessation, pharmaceuticals, ban

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Nicotine as an addictive substance: a critical examination of the basic concepts and empirical evidence | Dale Atrens
Article Published: 2001

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Journal of Drug Issues 31(2), 325-394, 2001

Keywords: nicotine, Atrens, addiction

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Clearing the Smoke – Assessing the science base for tobacco harm reduction | United States Institute of Medicine
Article Published: 2001

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Type: Official report
Published By: National Academy Press, Washington, DC

Keywords: IOM, Institute of Medicine, nicotine, addiction

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Drug addiction as demonic possession | Dale Atrens
Article Published: 2000

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Overland vol 158, Autumn 2000, pp.19-24

Keywords: addiction, Atrens, demonic, demonization

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Failings of the disease model of addiction | Gio Batta Gori
Article Published: 1996

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Human Psychopharmacology, Vol. 11, S33-38 (1996)

Keywords: Gori, addiction, ethics, epidemiology

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‘I Can’t Help Myself’: Addiction as Ideology | John Luik
Article Published: 1996

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Type: Articles and Dissertations
Published By: Human Psychopharmacology, Vol. 11, S21-32 (1996)

Keywords: Luik, addiction, ideology

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The Role of Nicotine in Tobacco Use | John H. Robinson, Walter S. Pritchard
Article Published: 1992

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Type: Review
Funding Source: Behavioural R&D, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company
Published By: Psychopharmacology (1992) 108:397-407

Keywords: Robinson, Pritchard, addiction

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