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humanodon  ·  3675 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit | Mother Jones

I used tobacco as an example because of its former ubiquity, but sure. I'm kind of surprised though, that the word "addiction" has such a negative stigma in most contexts, but as long as nothing negative is known about a substance that people habitually use, or extreme behaviors caused by a particular addiction, the public seems ok with addiction as a concept. However, when something negative is concretely known about an addiction, it's suddenly the end of the world and those people should be punished/pitied/shunned.