607 



some have resorted to the charge that tobacco use is "addictive". 

 Such charges ignore the scientific facts, including the fact that 

 more than 50 million Americans have given up tobacco, including 8 

 million who have given up smokeless tobacco. While the use of 

 smokeless tobacco may become a settled practice or habit, it is 

 not addictive. 



U.S. Tobacco is, of course, aware that the 1988 Surgeon 

 General's Report on nicotine claims that tobacco is "addicting" 

 and that "nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction." 



Professor David M. Warburton, a British researcher who 

 prepared a portion of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report, has 

 published a critique of that Report.^ It is Professor 

 Warburton' s judgment that the Report's conclusions are "political 

 pronouncements" rather than experimentally verified scientific 

 claims. 



Furthermore, Professor Warburton believes that the Surgeon 

 General's "misleading comparisons" of tobacco and drugs may 



^Warburton, D.M. , "Is Nicotine Use an Addiction?", The 

 Psychologist . 4, 166-170, April 1989. 



