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I_Like_Bike
Also, how come you are always a recovering alcoholic, but when someone quits smoking you are just an x-smoker? Even when the chemically addicting affects of cigarettes are well documented, but the addicting affects of alcohol seem more phycological?
Possible that your response is the answer.
Oh, I enjoy beer and alcohol in general, but I have restricted myself to one night a week in order to lose weight.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. But from what I've seen and heard, alcoholics get very very into it. They drink like smokers smoke. But they're ingesting a lot of alcohol. Enough to be constantly mind altering in a significant way. Their hygene, diet, and ability to perform small motor tasks will suffer significantly: In other words they'll look "plastered." The effect that has on the body is huge.
By contrast a smoker is addicted, but their smoking mostly just makes them smell like cigarettes and maybe suffer from mildly higher blood pressure. They're not drowning their liver or brain in nicotine. They're drowning their lungs in tar, very slowly.
I would definitely say that smoking is more unhealthy than drinking. But being an alcoholic I would guess is worse. I'd certainly rather be married to a smoker than an alcoholic. Although my wife is neither and I appreciate that very much.
I'm not a medical professional.