All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we?re selling this deadly stuff anyway?
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual?s body.