Smoking is very addictive because tobacco contains a powerful drug called nicotine. Cigarettes are deliberately designed to give you a fast nicotine hit. It takes less than 20 seconds for the drug to reach your brain from inhaled cigarette smoke. Nicotine causes addiction in much the same way as heroin or cocaine.moking accounts for more than 1 in 4 UK cancer deaths, and nearly a fifth of all cancer cases. Tobacco was responsible for more than 100 million deaths worldwide in the 20th Century. The World Health Organisation has estimated that, if current trends continue, tobacco could cause a billion deaths in the 21st Century.
The Civil War Village of Andersonville, Georgia is located just off Georgia Highway 49 between Americus and Oglethorpe and is some 21 miles northeast of Plains.
Dr. Elizabeth Anderson, MD, is an Internal Medicine specialist in Centreville, Virginia. She attended and graduated from East Carolina University School Of Medicine in 1992, having over 26 years of diverse experience, especially in Internal Medicine.