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World Service,1 min

Why nicotine is more addictive than heroin

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Professor Neal Benowitz, from the University of California San Francisco, explains how nicotine tricks our brain into thinking tobacco is good for us. (Image: Women smoking a cigarette. Credit: Getty Images)

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