A small percentage of people can get addicted to alcohol, but it's devastating when they do. nicotine is more addictive for a much wider range of people and has less devastating effects on those who are genetically or environmentally predisposed to addiction. The two types of addictiveness fall at different points in the spectrum that we call "chemical dependence" A hypothetical drug X could have different properties where on one hand, it could be addictive to nobody. On the other hand, it Could be like so addictive that if you just tried it once, you're just addicted immediately.

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