moral compunction as regards harm is age old, whether the buddhist or christian variety ("do/don't do unto others .." et al). this can be transferred to measure self-harm as well, even after conceding the personal right to do what one wills to oneself, since pampering oneself with a bubble bath or with two tabs of ice can be valued differently.
addictiveness arguably can also be compared in terms of degree - how difficult to shake one's craving for the thing or to do without it completely, and how frequently and intensely needful and desirous that thing is to one's gratification.
yet.
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