May 16, 1988: Nicotine Declared as Addictive as Heroin, Cocaine

May 16, 1988: Nicotine Declared as Addictive as Heroin, Cocaine

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An anti-smoking advertisement from the American Lung Association.

1988: C. Everett Koop, surgeon general of the United States, publishes a report declaring nicotine as addictive as either heroin or cocaine.

Nicotine serves as the tobacco plant’s natural defense against insects and, in its pure form, is more poisonous than either strychnine or arsenic. Its chemical structure is similar to acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter, giving it easy access to the brain’s reward and pleasure pathways.

Koop, something of an idiosyncratic figure despite serving in the conservative Reagan administration, went after the tobacco companies hard, something no one in his position had done before.

Koop, a pediatric surgeon, valued hard science over political expediency and was not afraid of staking out positions contrary to either the administration’s views or popular opinion.

He was much tougher on big tobacco than the Reagan administration would have liked and when AIDS came along, Koop was criticized both by gay rights advocates (for bluntly stating the health risks inherent in gay sex practices) and by conservatives (for advocating sex education as early as the third grade).

Besides his damning report on nicotine’s addictive characteristics, Koop was instrumental in making warning labels mandatory on cigarette packs.

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This article first appeared on Wired.com May 16, 2007.

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What will fill television’s sci-fi black hole after Fringe ends next season? The rash of new shows announced by networks over the past week include a few prime-time contenders that will offer an alternative to the usual doctor/lawyer/cop and sniggling singles/smug family fodder.

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J.J. Abrams’ Revolution boasts a spectacular-looking teaser and a post-apocalyptic premise that could spell success in the fantastical realm where Terra Nova (cancelled by Fox ), Alcatraz (canceled by Fox) and tepid Falling Skies (back for a second season on TNT) have faltered. The hook: 15 years after a total power blackout, humans make their way through the world without any of the conveniences modern civilians take for granted.

Creator Eric Kripke worked on the CW’s low-impact Supernatural drama, but it gets better: Iron Man’s Jon Favreau directs the pilot. Executive producer Abrams’ recent shows Undercovers and Alcatraz flopped, but the man who co-created Lost, working with Fringe producer Bryan Burk, might just turn a marathon power outage into compelling fare. Cast includes Andrea Roth (Rescue Me), Billy Burke (Twilight) and Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad).


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