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If the Chinese knew the effects of this harmful drug called Opium, why would they keep on using it? There is a simple answer to this question plaguing our minds; it was because they were addicted. “As the quantity he had smoked began to act upon his system, his features kindled up from the solid composed state they had been in previously. Still he lay tranquilly in the same posture with out any symptoms of uneasiness.” As described in the text “Opium and the Exotic East,” people, although warned of the hazards, continued to smoke opium clearly because they enjoyed the effects that it took on their bodies. Opium entered the Chinese markets with a boom around the nineteenth century. As described in “Opium Regimes,” opium was imported for many economic reasons, but this excuse does not mean that the Chinese were forced to smoke the drug. Judging by the euphoria after an opium smoking secession and the frequency of these secessions, leads me to believe that smoking opium, and addiction for that, matter were the choice of individuals. In the text “Missionaries and Opium,” the author states how people would start u