It demonstrates that the most addictive thing of all is the past.
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After heroin and cocaine, tobacco is the third-most-addictive commonly used drug.
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Nutt et al's expert panels rated nicotine (tobacco) as the third most addictive substance.
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Nutt et al's expert panels rated barbiturates as the fourth most addictive substance. 5.
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It's in this form that Reflection is most rewarding, or at least most addictive.
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In a recent study, food addiction researcher Nicole Avena, PhD, identified the most addictive foods.
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It's one of the app's most addictive features in part because the options change daily.
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Why Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" is the most addictive holiday song ever Why Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" is the most addictive holiday song ever This segment originally aired on December 8, 2016, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.
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It's the 15th anniversary of some of the most addictive, trashiest reality shows of all time.
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But it already has the most involved, and probably the most addictive, gameplay of the three.
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Some of the most addictive beverages and habits are not the best for our pearly whites.
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Mr. Jones knew from his AOL days that polling was among the most addictive of online features.
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In a statement this morning, Urban Decay introduced Rose and her new title: Most Addictive New Vice.
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Crunchy, sticky, sour, sweet — orange chicken is one of the most addictive Chinese American foods out there.
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Here are 11 of the most addictive, best mobile games to make your commute much less dull.
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Many apps are modeled after slot machines, which are arguably the most addictive machines ever created, Price says.
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"We know that nicotine is one of the most addictive substances available in a consumer product," he says.
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"E-cigarettes contain nicotine, and it is one of the most addictive substances we know of," he said.
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But from a scientific perspective it should be the most addictive beverage since original recipe 4Loko (RIP caffeinated alcohol).
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But some of the most addictive apps and games on our phones can become unappetizing in black and white.
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It's not only the best selling video game of all time, it might also be the most addictive game ever.
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Harris called this type of behavior the "most addictive and hardest to stop," just like playing slot machines in casinos.
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They found that when a person was agitated and outraged, that's one of the most addictive emotions you can have.
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The result for You, premiering Sunday, September 9, is one of the most addictive, taut new dramas of the fall season.
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The most addictive and popular games show up in every category, with the heroin-like Hearthstone sitting close to the middle.
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Imagine if the most addictive puzzle game of all time went to an EDM concert, and you've got yourself Tetris Effect.
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I used to self-medicate with one of the most addictive drugs in the world, and I don't do that anymore.
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One of the most addictive elements of Fallout 4 was the ability to not only craft weapons and gear, but entire settlements.
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Few countries have decriminalized the possession of cocaine, with experts divided over the practicality of legalizing one of the most addictive illegal drugs.
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The day view is definitely the most addictive — as it's where you see instant changes and can try to understand what's triggering what.
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Related Links:Ruby Rose Is Urban Decay's "Most Addictive New Vice"Gwen Stefani's Biggest Beauty Mistake Is TerrifyingUrban Decay Just Found Your Latest Vice
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As with the recent launch of Snapchat Cameos, the company has realized that the most addictive experiences center on its users' own faces.
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"Tobacco (is) arguably the most addictive substance on the planet, which has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, in any way, shape or form," Gupta said.
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Get monthly deliveries of soaps, oils, body wash, body butter, and bath bombs, all in the most addictive scents you never knew your nose needed.
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It has taken the most addictive components from each of them and used them to create a platform that is hard to look away from.
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We don't know if you followed the Knoedler trial, Pisces, but in our distinguished opinion it's the most addictive legal drama since the O.J. Simpson trial.
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The track tunes its laser focus to the stickiest parts of CRW's original, as if to create a chemical reduction of its most addictive melodic turns.
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Click on a blemish and it vanishes; if it made a little popping sound, it would be the most addictive video game known to God or man.
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Maybe the most addictive puzzle game we played this year, Merged seems simple at first: you match up similar colors to form combos of increasingly higher numbers.
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" She adds, "Xanax is one the most addictive benzos because it's very potent and has an immediate response, so it tends to change way person feels faster.
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"The bill we signed today goes a long way towards restricting access to the most addictive kinds of nicotine and vaping products," Baker said following the signing.
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The most addictive phone games come in different form, but have one key point in common: They make you feel equal parts frustration and validation as you play.
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"Our primary reason for choosing this drug is that it is one of the most addictive drugs responsible for thousands of deaths," Maoz told me in a email.
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Knapp and Zeratsky — who spent years designing some of today's most "addictive tech services," including Gmail and YouTube — realized they had become victims of their own products and routines.
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Tetris: The Soviet 'mind game' that took over the world Software engineer Alexey Pajitnov unintentionally went global with one of the greatest and most addictive games of all time.
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It wouldn't rank as the best sports movie on my list — not with "Hoosiers" and "He Got Game" and "Jerry Maguire" elevating the genre — but it's the most addictive.
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Virtual reality, for example, continues to improve and has the potential to become the most addictive tech in history, offering fully immersive fantasy worlds people may never want to leave.
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"Tobacco (is) arguably the most addictive substance on the planet, which has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, in any way, shape or form," said CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
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The media seeks novelty relentlessly—every drug epidemic always has to be the most severe, every new drug on the scene has to be the most addictive and deadly ever.
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The two technologists — who spent years designing some of today's most "addictive tech services," including Gmail and YouTube — realized they had become victims of their own routines after leaving Google.
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Although Animoji haven't received much hype since their initial release on the iPhone X, their karaoke uses are front and center in one of the most addictive Apple commercials to date.
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What was perhaps most addictive about Lost was how it sprinkled its mysteries over the top of rich character stories in a way that transformed the mysteries into unexpected, tasty seasoning.
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In addition to being arguably the most addictive drug, heroin is dangerous, too, because the dose that can cause death is only five times greater than the dose required for a high.
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It's also addictive, perhaps one of the most addictive drugs there is, says Eric Bowman Lecturer in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews in a post for The Conversation.
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Read more: Instagram is starting to cut off its most addictive feature, and it could have huge consequences for teens' mental healthBut those criticisms miss the point of the bill, Hardcastle said.
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But the most addictive chapter comes after the story is over, in an appendix where Goldsmith reconstructs the timelines of Hoffa and O'Brien on July 30, 1975, in granular, minute-by-minute detail.
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The launch of drug-monitoring programs in 24 states led to an immediate 30 percent drop in prescriptions for Schedule II opioids, the most addictive, in patients with pain complaints, the study showed.
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Read more: Instagram is starting to cut off its most addictive feature, and it could have huge consequences for teens' mental healthBut for influencers in those countries, response to the change has been different.
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"It's the most addictive brand I've ever come into contact with," said Lane Spodek, a 28-year-old sales associate at the downtown New York City branch of the high-fashion mini-emporium Totokaelo.
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It's all about which comms app giant can embed the stickiest and most addictive features into their platform to keep users inside their own well-tended garden, rather than peering over the wall at rivals' plots.
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Only 10 to 20 percent of people who take even the most addictive drugs like heroin and meth actually become addicted—the vast majority of drug use never results in addiction, or any other type of harm.
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Google became the latest tech giant to undertake such an effort this week, when it announced its upcoming Android P update will launch with a slew of features specifically designed to combat the most addictive qualities of our devices.
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The bars found themselves tacked beneath Arthur cartoons, dubbed over Family Guy clips, and scattered over the internet like fake snow at Christmas, making Devz the greatest and most addictive human meme generator since Drake danced out of his mother's womb.
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Read more: Instagram is starting to cut off its most addictive feature, and it could have huge consequences for teens' mental healthThe changes come after an extended conversation in the tech industry about the way social media and apps make people feel.
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Public health experts attribute that to a combination of Medicaid expansion (which widened access to treatment); declining street availability of some of the most addictive opioids; the widespread availability of naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses if rapidly administered; and post-treatment support for recovering addicts.
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The boat hijacking story was part of "What If?" a recurring feature that is Offgrid's most addictive: it blends fiction, journalism and alarmingly evocative illustrations to describe the most agonizing ways to die in modern life — and offers expert advice on how to avoid or escape them.
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For starters, pick up some jumbo lump crab meat, mix it with three kinds of cheese, Old Bay, and garlic, and then watch your friends elbow each other out of the way as they fight to dip yet another slice of warm baguette into the world's most addictive Maryland crab dip.
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So when the FDA announced new regulations last month, it took aim at flavored e-cigarettes, which come in a wide variety of sweet, kid-friendly flavors -- like blue raspberry or cotton candy -- that sound more like Slurpees than a delivery system for one of the world's most addictive drugs.
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It's actually kind of funny that Moment is releasing its new application just as users everywhere have been gripped by one of the most addictive and viral iPhone applications to date – Pokémon Go. It may not be the best time, then, to try to convince people to dial down their smartphone obsessions.
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Algorithmically organized mega platforms like YouTube may host quality content but are expert at incentivizing the creation and consumption of clickbait — thanks to ad-targeting business models that are fed by recommendation systems which monitor user inputs and actions to identify the most clickable and thus most addictive stuff to keep feeding them.
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Yet despite a user backlash, the website remains the most addictive of the top 50 sites listed by Alexa, with users spending on average over 2.8 minutes on Reddit each day, compared to 10 minutes and 49 seconds for Facebook, 7 minutes and 16 seconds for Google and 8 minutes and 31 seconds for YouTube.
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TikTok didn't necessarily bring anything especially new to social media, but it sticks out by integrating many of social media's most addictive and adored features under one app: Vine's video snippets for copious amounts of content consumption; Instagram's user feeds for easily following influencers; Twitter's trending hashtags for keeping up with what's going viral; and video game-inspired techniques for encouraging in-app spending.
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If the group stages always feel, to a screen-bound audience at least, like the World Cup in its purest, most addictive form – a whole planet's worth of tactical, athletic and cultural differences screamed directly into your face up to four times a day – then the knock-out rounds are the slightly sad but necessary pause where the tournament becomes less about the playing and more about the talking and the dreaming, gaps in the schedule providing the requisite time and space for legends to be written into being, the story of how a tournament should be remembered to be winched carefully into place.
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KDice has been praised by GamaSutra for being one of the twenty most addictive browser-based games.GamaSutra - IndieGames: The 20 Most Addictive Browser Games The game has also prompted interest for its donation-based business model, where players earn stars for each five dollars they contribute.Gamasutra - The Flash Game Business: Making A Living Online? The game has been nominated for a 2007 Crunchie award and has won the Jay Is Games 2006 Best Multiplayer award.
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The category was renamed Most Addictive Track for the 2007 and 2008 shows. "Born This Way", "Havana" and "Hey Ya!" also win Best Video. Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Pink winning twice.
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According to GameSpy, "cities could quickly become very difficult to manage, but those players who became fans swore that the game was one of the most addictive management simulations they had ever played".
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Neyfakh, Leon. "Quest for fun; Sometimes the most addictive new technology comes in a simple cardboard box". Boston Globe. 11 March 2012 Maintaining the players' interest throughout the gameplay experience is the goal of board game design.
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The video also features a cameo appearance from Hart. Pink performed "So What" on MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 on November 6, 2008. The song was nominated for several awards, eventually winning the MTV Europe Music Award for the Most Addictive Track.
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It's well worth the meager asking price, but buyer beware: it can have a profound effect on productivity. And one's social life." IGN wrote "Mega Mall Story represents Kairosoft's most addictive game experience yet. It strikes the perfect balance between accessibility and simulation depth.
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David Oxford, from 1UP.com felt that it was the most notable remake of the original Mega Man. In his review, Jeremy Parish, also from 1UP.com, called it "one of the most addictive PSP games to date" and felt that it reminded players of Mega Mans greatness.
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Thinkdigit 2009-05 ranked Pingus among the "Most addictive Linux games".Thinkdigit Magazine 2009-05 Linux For You September 2009 ranked Pingus 5/5.Linux-For-You-Issue-80 in Linux For You (September 2009) About.com called it a great game, while acknowledging its debt to Lemmings.
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Tracie Forman of Electronic Games wrote, "It takes the concept introduced in Missile Command a giant step further," and called War Room "one of the most addictive, exhilarating games for the ColecoVision." In 2014, Retro Gamer included War Room in their Top Ten ColecoVision Games list.
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Faerie Solitaire is a video game created and developed by independent video game developer and publisher Subsoap. The game was released 15 March 2009. This game mixes solitaire elements with fantasy and role-playing game elements. Faerie Solitaire won The Wall Street Journal's Gamehouse "Most Addictive Game" in 2010.
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The song also received several awards, including Most Addictive Track at the MTV Europe Music Awards, Song of the Year at Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica, Choice Music: Single at Teen Choice Awards, the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Song and was nominated for Single of the Year at the Juno Awards.
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Ben Pobjie, writing for the Brisbane Times observed that Jenny had "a doughtily down-to-earth spirit that epitomises the grounded nature that is W&L;'s most addictive element". Pobjie praised Jenny's mastectomy storyline and said Bergland shined as she portrayed Jenny in a situation that some viewers would find familiar.
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It was also nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Art/Graphics and Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Design. Electronic Gaming Monthly named it both Most Addictive Game and Best Movie to Game in their 1998 Video Game Buyer's Guide. Rare was recognised for its work on the game and won the BAFTA award for Best UK Developer.
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Since coming out as HIV-positive, Ongina has become an HIV activist. She was the host for the online web show HIV and Me, a talk show featuring interviews with different individuals on how they live with HIV/AIDS. Ongina also was a spokesperson for OraQuick, one of the first at-home HIV testing kits, in 2013. She won the NewNowNext Award for Most Addictive Reality Star in 2009.
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The album received praise from Get Your Rock Out writer Michael Dodd who particularly singled out the song 'Willow', calling it "a grippingly addictive highlight". Summing up the record he wrote that "With High Priestess the group can boast a true treasure, an album that is just too fun to not listen to again and again; a real force of awesome metal and one of the most addictive releases of 2014".
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Variety in gameplay is not essential to replayability. Many arcade games, especially from the golden age of arcade games, are completely linear, yet people continue to play these games, even those that have been around for decades. A clear example can be seen in Tetris. The gameplay is extremely simple compared to more modern games; yet it is arguably one of the most addictive video games ever made.
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In 2009, Daniel Brusilovski from TechCrunch called Woopra an "impressive live tracking and analytics service". ReadWriteWeb named Woopra a top web product of 2010 and gave it an honorable mention in 2011. ReadWriteWeb's Founder, Richard MacManus, says Woopra is "without a doubt the most addictive business tool I use." In 2012, eWeek listed Woopra as a "hot web analytics" company and American Express OPEN Forum listed it as one of the "smartest web analytics tools".
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Download.com awarded the game a 5-star editor's rating and described the game as a classic in the making, "Warning Forever will entice nearly every gamer who enjoys a space shootout". The staff of Computer Gaming World, writing for gaming blog 1up.com said "This game is among the most addictive platform shooters in the business". Eurogamer's Jim Rossignol named Warning Forever among a top 20 list of Summer of PC Freeware games in 2006.
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Crashs reviewer called Spindizzy "one of the most addictive" ZX Spectrum games, noting its innovative use of shape changing, multiple view angles, and speed control. The audio was seen as lacking compared to the rest of the game, but was still described as good. Phil South of Your Sinclair gave the game high marks for graphics, playability, value for money, and addictiveness. He praised the ability to change viewpoints and the realistic movements of the character sprite.
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In Japan, Game Machine listed Tapper on their March 15, 1984 issue as being the most-successful table arcade unit of the year. Compute!'s Gazette called the Commodore 64 version of Tapper "one of the most addictive games we've seen lately ... not only fun to play, but also immensely challenging, graphically entertaining, and full of action". The magazine stated that "it's a very well-designed strategy game", and concluded that it was "near the top in entertainment value".
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Chemical dependence refers to various indicators such as "craving for the substance, needing the substance first thing in the morning; concern by someone close to the respondent or a doctor about the person's drug consumption habits." The report indicated that between the age range from 15 to 65, tobacco was the most addictive substance with 62.3% of users expressing a craving for it. 21%, 44%, and 34.4% of alcohol, bhang, and miraa users, respectively, expressed similar cravings.
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This memorization increases virality of the content so that the users tend to recommend them to their friends and acquaintances, and share them via social networks.The Most Addictive Mobile Marketing Strategy - Advergaming One form of in-game mobile advertising is what allows players to actually play. As a new and effective form of advertising, it allows consumers to try out the content before they actually install it. This type of marketing can also really attract the attention of users like casual players.
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Halo 3 was nominated for seven awards from the Spike TV Awards, of which it won "Best Multiplayer Game" and "Most Addictive Video Game Fueled by Dew". It won Times "Game of the Year" and IGN chose it as the Best Xbox 360 Online Multiplayer Game and Innovative Design of 2007. The Visual Effects Society awarded Bungie the "Best Real Time Visuals in a Video Game" for Halo 3. Halo 3 took the Calvin Award for "Best Videogame" as selected by Box Office Prophets.
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Dudley suggests that, whereas most addictive substances have a relatively short history of human use, attraction to and consumption of ethanol by various primates may go back tens of millions of years. The odors of ripening fruit would help primates find scarce calories in tropical rain forests, given that ethanol is a relatively light molecule and is moved rapidly by winds through vegetation. This once-beneficial attraction to and consumption of ethanol at low concentrations may underlie modern human tendencies for alcohol use and alcohol abuse.
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Basshunter is a Swedish singer, record producer and DJ, who has released six studio albums. His second studio album LOL released in 2006 earned him nominations for Emma and Grammis awards, and won the European Border Breakers Award. His single "Boten Anna" was nominated among others for Rockbjörnen award and won Eurodanceweb Award. "Now You're Gone" was nominated for MTV Europe Music Award in category Most Addictive Track, won Eska Music Award and was ranked 9th in voting for The Record of the Year.
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Two grams of crack cocaine Crack cocaine, also known simply as crack or rock, is a free base form of cocaine that can be smoked. Crack offers a short, intense high to smokers. The Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment calls it the most addictive form of cocaine. Crack first saw widespread use as a recreational drug in primarily impoverished neighborhoods in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Miami in late 1984 and 1985; its rapid increase in use and availability is sometimes termed as the "crack epidemic".
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Crack cocaine is popularly thought to be the most addictive form of cocaine. However, this claim has been contested: Morgan and Zimmer wrote that available data indicated that "...smoking cocaine by itself does not increase markedly the likelihood of dependence.... The claim that cocaine is much more addictive when smoked must be reexamined." They argued that cocaine users who are already prone to abuse are most likely to "move toward a more efficient mode of ingestion" (that is, smoking). The intense desire to recapture the initial high is what is so addictive for many users.
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In April 2018, Kaelar wrote, arranged, and produced K-Pop group VIXX's lead single for their album Eau de VIXX, "Scentist". The track went on to hit #1 on the Mnet charts and was licensed for Korean television shows like The Return of Superman. On October 26, 2018, Varien released her next EP, Death Asked a Question, through Most Addictive Records. In an interview with EDM Joy, she described the EP as being the physical manifestation of her struggles during her hiatus, in contrast to the "fantastical" narrative of The Ancient & Arcane.
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She also received a 2008 Q Award in the category of Breakthrough Act, a nomination for the Q category of Best Track for "Mercy",Coldplay Top Q Awards List MTV UK, 2 September 2008 a Music of Black Origin Award nomination for Best UK Female. At the MTV Europe Music Awards, she received nominations in the categories of Album of the Year, Most Addictive Track, and New Act. She performed at the EMA show.Duffy joins music awards bill ITN 6 October 2008 Duffy has performed at concerts and festival gigs around the world.
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Billboard also included it in their '10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015' and called it "one of the year's most enjoyable and experimental pop LPs." The single "Dumb Dumb" was later included at #70 on Billboard's list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time, praising its hooks and being one of "the most addictive singles in pop". In a separated top 25 Red Velvet songs by Billboard, four songs from The Red made its appearance, including "Dumb Dumb" at No. 4, "Cool World" at No. 13, "Time Slip" at No. 15, and lastly "Red Dress" at No. 21.
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Note: Contrary to the title, the intro to the article (on page 100) explicitly states that the list covers console video games only, meaning PC games and arcade games were not eligible. GamesRadar+ listed it 87th on their list of "The 100 best games of all time", stating "you haven't lived until you've played Tetris Attack two-player and dropped an immensely satisfying five line garbage block on your opponent." Game Informer featured it on its own best games of all-time list at 96 and called it one of the most addictive puzzle games made. GameSpot called it "absolutely brilliant".
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The series has been well received by critics, with Carlo Santos at Anime News Network calling it "one of the most addictive sci-fi thrillers in recent anime history", Richard Eisenbeis at Kotaku calling it one of the best anime he had seen, and Chris Beveridge at The Fandom Post calling it his favorite simulcast title of 2011. In 2011 it won a Newtype Anime Award for the best male anime character of the year, for Rintaro Okabe. IGN listed Steins;Gate among the best anime series of the 2010s. Critics have enjoyed the series' story and writing.
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The song was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance". The song was also nominated during various award ceremonies including the MTV Europe Music Awards (Most Addictive Track), Q Awards (Best Track) and the 2009 Music Producers Guild Awards (UK Single of the Year). "Mercy" was also nominated for PRS for Most Performed Work and Best-selling British Song at the 2008 Ivor Novello Awards, winning in the former category. The song was the fourth most played anywhere in the United Kingdom in 2009, revealed in a list compiled by music body PRS.
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United Press International characterized the remix as a "YouTube sensation", calling it "catchy". LA Weekly described the remix as "a mash-up of Bale's best quotes set to a synth-heavy beat", and noted "'Bale Out' turned 'What don't you fuckin' understand?' into one of the year's most addictive choruses and spun a little art out of the debacle." The Irish Independent called the piece a "painstakingly constructed dance track", and described the chorus as "oddly catchy". The Globe and Mail commented that the remix has "an imperilling beat, a genius comedic flair and more sheer scariness than American Psycho and Terminator combined".
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The Globe and Mail's Simon Houpt compared Brown to an "action star in a Hollywood blow-'em-up: throwing fireballs and kicking asses" but added "he has a track record of playing fast and loose with facts". In the Toronto Life review of Toronto's most "addictive podcasts" in 2016, Vibhu Gairola, included Canadaland. Gairola wrote that "Unless you’re a journalist, you probably know Canadaland as that podcast that broke the Ghomeshi scandal". While Canadaland self-described as a "non-sensationalist watchdog and a flag bearer for responsible reporting", Brown is known for routinely challeng[ing] and condemn[ing] the big names in Canadian news." Gairola compared Canadaland to "earnest whistle-blowing of TVO’s The Agenda With Steve Paikin or HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.
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In Larry Niven's Known Space stories, a "wirehead" is someone who has been fitted with an electronic brain implant known as a "droud" in order to stimulate the pleasure centers of their brain. Wireheading is the most addictive habit known (Louis Wu is the only given example of a recovered addict), and wireheads usually die from neglecting their basic needs in favour of the ceaseless pleasure. Wireheading is so powerful and easy that it becomes an evolutionary pressure, selecting against that portion of humanity without self-control. A wirehead's death is central to Niven's Gil "the Arm" Hamilton story "Death by Ecstasy", published by Galaxy Magazine in 1969, and a main character in the book Ringworld Engineers is a former wirehead trying to quit.
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Despite the initial success of the game, it has received a negative reaction from critics, video game designers, and personalities. Time magazine called the game one of the "50 Worst Inventions" in recent decades due to it being "the most addictive of Facebook games" and a "series of mindless chores on a digital farm". In a December 2010 interview with Gamasutra, game designer and programmer Jonathan Blow criticized FarmVille for being designed to create an atmosphere of negativity, requiring an unprecedented commitment to the game, and encouraging users to exploit their friends. The video game researcher Ian Bogost designed Cow Clicker as a satire of FarmVille and similar Zynga games to deconstruct the repetitiveness and perceived absurdity of such games.
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The game received Game of the Year awards from the Classic Game Room, and Zavvi.com. X360 gave it the "Best Shooter" award, and GamesRadar gave it an award for Most "Oh Shit" Moments Per Minute. IGN gave it the "Best Sci-Fi Game" award in the PS3 category, and nominated the game for the awards of "Coolest Atmosphere", "Most Challenging", "Most Addictive Game", "Best Visuals" and "Best Blockbuster Game". GameSpot gave the game the awards for "Best Game No One Played", both the editors' award and the Readers' Choice award, and "Best Original Game Mechanic" for its rocket-sliding game mechanic, which acts as both a defensive escape and an offensive setup, opening up new gameplay possibilities for action games.
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Tan continued, "the five Muses prov[e] that their pillow talk skills are right up there with the best of them", concluding, "The track also works well as an alternative to modern pop's teenage heartbreak music", advising listeners to "ditch Hilary Duff and play this instead". Tracy Dye of Bustle hailed the track as "one of Disney's most addictive pieces of ear- candy," appreciating the fact that "it veers from the typical love-laced ballads we're used to." Rob Burch of The Hollywood News called "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" a "refreshing change of pace". Beamly ranked the song fifth on the website's list of "Best Ever Disney Songs", with author Sophie Hall nicknaming Meg "The Celine Dion of the cartoon world".
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Jujubee in 2014 Jujubee appeared on the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race when she was 25, finishing in third place out of twelve. Jujubee, along with fellow season two contestants Tyra Sanchez, Raven, Pandora Boxx, and Morgan McMichaels served as drag professors on RuPaul's Drag U, a spin-off of Drag Race that premiered on the Logo network in June 2010. She made at least one appearance on all three seasons of Drag U. She was also nominated for a 2010 NewNowNext Award for "Most Addictive Reality Star". On August 6, 2012, it was announced that Jujubee was one of twelve past Drag Race contestants selected to join the first cast of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, which premiered on the Logo network on October 22, 2012.
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John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and became a best- selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. His work stands out among that of contemporaries for its unvarnished realism. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his champions rank him highly among the under-appreciated and unjustly neglected major American writers of the 20th century. Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work to be reprinted in anthologies used to teach literature at the college level. "O’Hara may not have been the best story writer of the twentieth century, but he is the most addictive," wrote Lorin Stein, editor- in-chief of the Paris Review, in a 2013 appreciation of O'Hara's work.
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Leftwich's debut album, the Ian Grimble-produced Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm, was released in July 2011. The Fly called it "a majestic debut" The Skinny,Buckle, Chris (2011) "Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm", The Skinny, 27 June 2011, retrieved 2011-07-06 while the Sunday Express called it "lovely".Heathcote, Charlotte (2011) "ALBUM REVIEW - BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH: LAST SMOKE BEFORE THE SNOW STORM (DIRTY HIT)", Sunday Express, 3 July 2011, retrieved 2011-07-06 Hazel Sheffield, writing in The Guardian, gave it a 3/5 rating,Sheffield, Hazel (2011) "Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm – review", The Guardian, 30 June 2011, retrieved 2011-07-06 as did David Pollock, writing for The Scotsman, who drew comparisons to Damien Rice and José González.Pollock, David (2011) "Album review: Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Last smoke before the snowstorm", The Scotsman, 5 July 2011, retrieved 2011-07-07 Leftwich's "Shine" was named Spotify's most addictive track of 2014, the most repeat-played song of the year.
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" Monkey Target, lauded by Kent as the "most addictive interactive activity of 2001" and considered "the most complex" of the party games by Turner, was complimented by Casamassina for its "simple and brilliantly intuitive" control scheme and "careful science of when to use an item and when to forgo it." Nintendo Power and Medina, respectively, described Monkey Billiards as "a full-blown pool game" and "a very fun alternative to the real game"; Casamassina applauded its "ultra-realistic physics engine that perfectly mimics how pool balls would react ... it all works just as good if not better than any pool simulation available to home consoles." Casamassina was further impressed by the physics of Monkey Bowling, elaborating that "when the pins break apart one would swear it's the real deal", but Turner criticized its physics as "slightly wonky". Medina singled out Monkey Bowling's "nailbiting" challenge mode as a personal favorite, while Nintendo Power considered Monkey Bowling "as good as tenpin gets" and Kent wrote it "is one of the most robust bowling simulations I have ever played.
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The original version of SoulCalibur II received critical acclaim, earning it the average scores of 91.3% for the PlayStation 2, 92.3% for the GameCube, and 91.6% for the Xbox. Greg Kasavin of GameSpot praised the game "It's certainly one of the most refined, most accessible, and best-looking 3D fighting games to date, and it's squarely the best game in its class for the Xbox and GameCube." IGN writer Kaiser Hwang gave the game a positive review, but commented on its similarity to the first game "And so, while evolution is not always mandatory, sometimes pushing the boundaries can lead to bigger and better things. In the case of Soul Calibur II, contentment will do just fine." In the first ever Spike Video Game Awards in 2003, SoulCalibur II won in the category Most Addictive Game."Spike TV honors digital women, Ray Liotta in video game awards", The Victoria Advocate, December 4, 2003. In 2011, Complex ranked it as the 14th best fighting game of all time.Peter Rubin, The 50 Best Fighting Games of All Time, Complex.com, March 15, 2011 By July 2006, the GameCube version of Soulcalibur II had sold 850,000 copies and earned $32 million in the United States.
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