Addiction Research Foundation
33 Russell Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada MSS 2S1
April 17, 1984
Mr. David Sweanor
Suite 201
455 Spadi na Avenue
Toronto, Ontario MSS 2G8
RE: Cigarette Smoking as an Addiction
Dear Mr. Sweanor:
You leave asked me to give you an opinion about cigarette
smoking as an addiction. I have attached a copy of a -recent
Curriculum Vitae to help establish my expertise in this area.
For the past 10 years, I have been conducting research on
cigarette smoking and have become an authority on behavioural
pharmacology and drug use, with a special emphasis on the study
of cigarette smoking. Currently, I am a scientist in the Smoking
Research Programme of the Addiction Research Foundation. (The
opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those
of the Addiction Research Foundation. ) I am widely-recognized as
a researcher In this area and have consulted For such groups as
the U.S. Federal Trade Commlbsion and the U.S'. Office on Smoking
and flea] th.
In my opf ni on, ci garette smoki ng is an addi cti ve behavi our,
most probably resulting From an addiction to nicotine. The
classification of cigarette smoking as a drug dependence is
supported by the World Health Organization's International
Classification of Diseases (9th revision) and by the American
Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (3rd edition). Encloged are some documents to
support the view of cigarette smoking as an addiction: 1. a
technical review by an expert committee (I was a member) on
Cigarette Smoking as an Addiction, and, 2. a special report in
the U.S. Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, OTobacco Use As
An Addiction.' The special report also reproduces a pamphlet that
has been released by the U. S. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Although there was a time when it was common to see cigarette
smoking descrf bed as 6j us t a habit, a I think that it will be
d t f f I cul t to f i nd a co ntempo rary expert who does not be I i eve tha t
cigarette smoking deserves to be classed with other addictions.
Sincerely,
Lynn T. Kozlowski, Ph.D.
Scientist
Smoki ng Research Programme
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Associate Professor
Psychology
Pharmacology, and
Preventive Medicine &
Biostatistics
University of Toronto
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