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Like heroin or cocaine, nicotine changes the way your brain works and causes you to crave more and more nicotine

Instead, corruption began flourishing in the aftermath of Lebanons 1975-1990 civil war, which saw warlord businessmen given impunity for their crimes, allowing them free reign to exploit the newly-created confessional system in Lebanon, which calls for power to be shared among religious sects

38 The cognitive dissonance at work allows the smokers room to confess to the obvious, that smoking is bad for their health, but it also gives them hope that the negative health effects are not as bad as they are made out to be or even that the smoker will somehow dodge the avalanche of health consequences that affect other smokers (a cognitive bias known as the optimism bias)

Jeanette Zoeckler, PhD: "A one-size-fits-all approach is not going to be useful