Seriously? You guys hear the word nicotine and assume the song has to be about cigarettes? What about the words "planet dies"? "millions of our years in minutes disappears"? "never is the sun"? Cigarettes cause lung cancer and heart disease, not literal apocalypse. Get real people. They're just using nicotine as an analogy. Nicotine in a deadly toxic drug, but many people can't quit smoking because nicotine is also addictive. Nuclear weapons have more destructive power than anything humanity has ever created, but many people thought at the time that nuclear war is inevitable. Remember this was written during the Cold War. (Some people still say that as more countries get nuclear weapons nuclear war becomes more likely, so this song isn't really dated.)
Seriously? You guys hear the word nicotine and assume the song has to be about cigarettes? What about the words "planet dies"? "millions of our years in minutes disappears"? "never is the sun"? Cigarettes cause lung cancer and heart disease, not literal apocalypse. Get real people. They're just using nicotine as an analogy. Nicotine in a deadly toxic drug, but many people can't quit smoking because nicotine is also addictive. Nuclear weapons have more destructive power than anything humanity has ever created, but many people thought at the time that nuclear war is inevitable. Remember this was written during the Cold War. (Some people still say that as more countries get nuclear weapons nuclear war becomes more likely, so this song isn't really dated.)