The Wall

[BananaStand]

How are you successfully distinguishing between the addiciton of heroin and that of tobacco,

Common sense

I would argue they are both as addictive as one another, because both are charactaerised by an increase in tolerance as the user becomes addicted, and both result in unpleasant withdrawal symptom.

Not even close to the same thing

It's not so easy to say the same with heroin, because people take heroin occasionally to get wasted, while not doing so regularly because they fear addiction.

The prevalance and availability of heroin compared to cigarrettes has a lot to do with that.

You seem to think that the legal status of a substance is what determines its danger. That's garbage.

I don't think that. I think the danger of a substance is what determines its legal status. Therefore, using that already-determined legal status as an indicator of danger is not 'garbage'.

Chocolate is addictive.

So why isn't chocolate illegal? Could it be that society has determined that people can ingest chocolate, enjoy it's affects, without losing control of themselves? Could it also be that society determined that those who do develop a habit aren't in very much danger?

Everything you ingest is a potential drug,

Do you see the slippery slope you're going down here? You've split enough hairs over the definition of "addiction" so that you can apply it to anything. That allows you to compare heroin to nicotine as if they are even in the same ballpark. They aren't.