In my opinion ALL addictions play with a death wish and are based on an unhealthy, non-viable personality.
Yes, I am including my own addiction to nicotine which I kicked 10 years ago. Still, I often want to pick up a pack of cigarettes after all that time. My mom smoked 1 cigarette a day, 2 if she was feeling frivolous. She was a smoker, but not addicted and wasn’t smoking in a fatalistic way. I smoked 3+ packs and had a chronic cough – a fatalistic addiction.
No one can be responsible for severe personality flaws of other people.
I keep going back to the example of the mom and pop store, exploiting such faulty personalities with beer, liquor, cigarettes, tobacco and lottery tickets.
By far the most frequent, destructive and fatal addiction is alcohol.
I would love to see some stats on the frequency of various addictions.
People with addictive personalities walk through a life that is full of temptations and traps. Depending on opportunity and personal experience and inclination they fall for one thing or another, from alcohol through nicotine, sugar, carbohydrates, extreme sports and other adrenaline related activities, through caffeine and gambling and a zillion things in between.
All the things we would have to outlaw to keep an addictive personality from following their fatalistic personality flaw is staggering. We would have few goods left to sell, and very few jobs would be left.
Not to mention no one could have any fun or indulgence for fear of triggering an addiction in someone else.