True, everyone is addicted to something, from little kids addicted to sweeties to full blown alcoholics and heroin addicts. But I think the point my mate was making was that if you didn't introduce addictive e-numbers and sugers to kids, by the time they're 18, they wouldn't want them anyway. Same with smoking, most people start smoking in their teenage years, behind the bikeshed sort of thing because it's rebelious and before anyone can do anything to stop them, they're 16 and legally able to smoke and addicted. Now if the smoking age were to be upped to 21, by that time a young adult would have to be insane instead of just rebelious to start smoking. Smoking tobacco leads to smoking Cannabis, the two go hand in hand because if you can't smoke a fag without coughing, then you cirtainly can't smoke a joint. Then all the really addictive stuff becomes legal at an age when most people have settled down into some sort of responsible behaviour around 40 and hardly anyone at that age would knowingly start to take substances such as alcohol, heroin, LSD ect. and if they did, they'd be more responsible about it than if they were younger.
It's all to do with psychology really, older people are less likely to get so addicted to a substance so badly that it screws their entire life up.  | 
29-01-05, 15:41
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