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saturnfan wrote:

J T wrote:
Addiction is usually not fun though.

How is addiction not fun? If it wasn't fun or pleasant, then how would the person becoming addicted in the first place? When I am sharing heroin needles or smoking a brick of crack I am very very happy and I am having the time of my life.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding. I can conceive that you would find it fun being high, but I doubt that you actually really think "addiction" is fun.
I think the best way to understand the difference is to imagine that the substance in question give you the high but not the addiction (e.g. no habituation - so you would not need to increase the dosage to get the same effect, no psychological or physical withdrawal symptoms and such) - are you really saying you would prefer the real (with addiction) version over the imaginary version without?

I think cigarette makers actually put more addicting chemicals in there on purpose (so that, e.g. smoking tobacco on pipes is less addicting).

Ivo.