Why is alcoholism considered a disease, but not smoking? Are food addicts considered diseased?

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Why would alcoholism not just be called an addiction like smoking or doing drugs?  And if doing drugs is obviously worse and illegal than smoking, then why don't we just call smoking a crutch?  Or why don't we call all smoking and drug addiction a disease as well?  So, would food addicts also be considered diseased?  Because it can be just as dangerous.  Who made up these rules as to what's a disease, what's a crutch, and what's an addiction?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Alcoholism isn't a disease...it's an addiction, whatever substance creates a dependence on the body...is consider an addiction. I think you are getting confused because often at times recovering alcoholics use the word "sickness" to refer to their addiction in therapy.

The rest you put up I don't really understand it. The reason why smoking isn't as a big deal to be wrapped around drugs and alcohol, (although it is equally dangerous) it's because tobacco companies don't want to, have not EVER admit that their cigarette have addictive substances, and they have their millions of dollars to protect them from such accusations. 

Remember, A disease it's not cause by a self-provoked dysfunction, like drugs, like alcohol, like tobacco.

Food addicts are linked to OCDs, or cases of obesity where eating becomes more of a physiological state, and a dependency. Food addiction is one thing, overeating because of obesity it's a metabolically illness, often genetic.

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Why is alcoholism considered a disease, but not smoking? Are food addicts considered diseased?

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