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reliable drug delivery device than does the person who obtains 

 drugs of widely varying potency from street dealers. This 

 feature lets the cigarette smoker avoid unexpectedly high or low 

 doses of nicotine, a benefit the user of cocaine or heroin does 

 not have. The cigarette smoker will reliably receive the 

 expected dose, a dose known to the smoker as one that will 

 produce the desired effect. The user of heroin or cocaine does 

 not have this assurance. 



The tobacco companies are familiar with the scientific 

 literature on nicotine and know that smoking is a hard thing for 

 most of their customers to stop. They intend to provide their 

 customers with "satisfaction" and to sustain in them a 

 physiologic state of normal feeling. The industry's repeated 

 comparison to caffeine is valid to the extent that caffeine, like 

 nicotine, has a variety of pharmacologic effects, including 

 stimulation, tolerance and withdrawal. However, nicotine is a 

 more potent drug than caffeine: consumers of nicotine find it 

 harder to stop, and experts have concluded that addiction to 

 nicotine is a regular consequence of nicotine ingestion while 

 addiction to caffeine seems so unusual that it has not been 

 deemed necessary to include this diagnosis in comprehensive 

 listings of medical conditions. 



In their intention to provide customers with tobacco 

 satisfaction, in their intention to provide customers with 

 physiologic effects, and in their intention to provide customers 

 with a drug that induces tolerance and withdrawal, cigarette 



