From the “Addiction Consensus Group’s” final report [78].

<p>After a year and a half of deliberation, PM scientists concluded that smokers did not smoke exclusively for nicotine. Rather, addiction was the product of the complicated interactions and reinforcing effects of nicotine’s pharmacology in combination with the user’s psychology, sociology, and the user’s developmental stage of smoking (i.e., initiation, maintenance, cessation, or relapse). PM, Philip Morris.