The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a rule to drastically reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products.
If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products.
The FDA rule is just one step toward reduced-nicotine cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products becoming the standard. This process would probably take many years, depending on the priorities of future administrations and whether the tobacco industry challenges the rule in court, as it has the FDA’s rule placing graphic warning labels on their products.
Regular cigarettes generally contain around 16 milligrams of nicotine per gram of tobacco. The FDA is proposing to reduce the amount to 0.7 milligrams in cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products.compared with regular cigarettes in terms of how much they smoke and other factors.
Those reinforcing behaviors kind of cover for the smaller buzz the reduced-nicotine cigarettes offer. Meanwhile, taking in less nicotine starts to chip away at the dependence on the chemical. The research finding that cravings and withdrawal symptoms don’t increase even though the person is smoking less matters to the goal of eventually being able to quit.
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