Smoking addictive shocker!
Some actress who I've never heard of has lung cancer. She smoked and is mad at the cigarette companies:
I got addicted because the tobacco companies add additives to their tobacco to make it more addictive.
And I thought it was the nicotine—which is part of the tobacco leaf, not added by evil companies—that was addictive.
You live 'n' learn.
So it appears that tobacco companies are increasing the addictiveness
of cigarettes by increasing the effectiveness of the already-present addictive component, and making smoking more palatable—for the smoker, that is, not the poor bastards around them. Big deal!
Both my parents started smoking. And both of them kicked it. As did my brother and my wife, they both took it up when the additives were more likely to have been added—perhaps to overcome the negative press—and both kicked it.
This whinging actress who I've never heard of just has no willpower and a celebrity-obsessed media through which to bitch 'n' moan. She should just go back to her champagne cocktails and skimpily-clad pool boys, and leave the poor tobacco companies alone. (oldman)