Is a cigarrette a drug, please provide a source? If not thats okay.
2006-07-05 16:49:53 · 13 answers · asked by rawrTOyou 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
YES, but its rather funny its not controlled by the FDA
food and drug administration but by BATF the bureau of alcohol tobacco and fire arms.
Nicotine is one of the most heavily used addictive drugs in the United States. In 2003, 29.8 percent of the U.S. population 12 and older—70.8 million people—used tobacco at least once in the month prior to being interviewed.* This figure includes 3.6 million young people age 12 to 17. There were no statistically significant changes in past-month rates of the different tobacco products among this age group between 2002 and 2003. However, there were significant declines in past-year and lifetime cigarette use between 2002 and 2003. In addition, the rate of past-month cigarette use decreased among 13 year-olds. Young adults aged 18 to 25 reported the highest rate of current use of any tobacco products (44.8 percent).
Cigarette smoking has been the most popular method of taking nicotine since the beginning of the 20th century. In 1989, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a report that concluded that cigarettes and other forms of tobacco, such as cigars, pipe tobacco, and chewing tobacco, are addictive and that nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. The report also determined that smoking was a major cause of stroke and the third leading cause of death in the United States. Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, causing approximately 440,000 premature deaths each year and resulting in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in direct medical costs. (See www.cdc.gov/tobacco/issue.htm).
2006-07-05 16:59:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes a cigarrette is a drug. It has nicotine in it which is a drug. It's addictive and harmful to ones self.
2006-07-05 23:54:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes cigarettes is a drug. I started smoking several years ago and I have tried so many times to quit . I do not enjoy smoking at all and wish I never started and it's one of the most habit forming drugs they are to broke and if you do not smoke do not allow this nasty around you or your love ones
2006-07-06 00:04:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes a cigarrette is a drug anyone that smokes will tell you it addictive, so there for it is a drug
2006-07-05 23:53:54 · answer #4 · answered by marshall_blake2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes because all cigarettes contain nicotine, which is a very addictive drug.
2006-07-06 17:22:49 · answer #5 · answered by nobodyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeap... a cigarrette has nicotine in it and nicotine is a drug. so yes, a cigarrette is a drug.
2006-07-05 23:54:19 · answer #6 · answered by .:*:.Hey! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes cigarettes contain Nicotine which has been clinically proven to be more addictive than Heroin
2006-07-05 23:54:14 · answer #7 · answered by latinrn2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep. its funny tho. about 100 years ago the founders of cigarettes swore before the U.S. FDA swearing it was not a drug. bastards
2006-07-06 00:34:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicotine is a drug... just run a search on ask.com
2006-07-05 23:53:01 · answer #9 · answered by tansyangeni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is because it has tabaco in it which is a drug
2006-07-05 23:53:41 · answer #10 · answered by Gothic Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋