Posted on 03/15/2018 10:14:39 AM PDT by GIdget2004
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday took the first step in creating a new rule to reduce the level of nicotine allowed in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels.
In an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking, FDA asked the public to submit comments over the next 90 days on the impact of a product standard for the maximum nicotine level in cigarettes.
“Tobacco use causes a tremendous toll of death and disease every year and these effects are ultimately the result of addiction to the nicotine contained in combustible cigarettes, leading to repeated exposure to toxicants from such cigarettes,” the agency said in the notice.
“This nicotine addiction causes users to engage in compulsive use, makes quitting less likely and, therefore, repeatedly exposes them and others to thousands of toxicants in combusted tobacco products.”
The FDA first announced in July that it was planning to start a public dialogue about writing such a rule.
“Envisioning a world where cigarettes would no longer create or sustain addiction, and where adults who still need or want nicotine could get it from alternative and less harmful sources, needs to be the cornerstone of our efforts — and we believe it’s vital that we pursue this common ground,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said at the time.
The agency is asking the public to weigh what the appropriate nicotine level should be, how the limits should be implemented, how nicotine levels should be tested, the economic impact and the possible countereffects, like whether it would create a black market for cigarettes with more nicotine.
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How about e-cigarettes?
How about cutting thc levels in joints and ‘candy bars’?
Marijuana is double-plus good.
Cigarettes are loaded with the devil’s weed and will surely lead you to a life of destruction and a fate in the fiery pits of Hell!
I’m not a smoker. I’m also not someone who wants the all-powerful Federal bureaucracy seizing ever more power to be my personal nanny.
As Mark Steyn said, “You don’t need a President-For-Life” when you have a “Bureaucracy-For-Life”. Please stay the hell out of this FDA.
Amazing what government agencies can do without passing new laws!
Idiots in the gov’t, huh?
For those already addicted to nicotine then they’ll have to smoke even MORE cigarettes to quench their addiction.
I have been using an e-cig to quit smoking after 40 years.
It’s going well and have stepped down the nicotine levels from 18mg/ml to 6mg/ml. It’s been about 6 weeks, and once I get to zero, the intent is to stop the vap-thing.
Cross each bridge as I get to it.
Indeed, I lost count of how many times the Feds have recommended marijuana.
Hey, that’s an idea. For example, let’s make all beer 3.2 and that will stop people from drinking.
So we’ll see them outside, sucking furiously with caved in cheeks, trying to get that nicotine hit.
and 52,000 AAmericans died last from the un-mentioned (tbi).
Non nicotine cigs is like non alcoholic beer. What’s the point. MJ with no THC? I do none of it so......... But, free enterprise.
The government just can’t bring itself to leave people alone.
Next, going after coffee. Watch out Starbucks.
As an ex-smoker I can attest to the massively addictive nature of nicotine. But I don’t think this will have the strong affect the FDA is planning for.
I think this will cause an immediate increase in the number of cigarettes sold and the tobacco companies will cleanup.
If you reduce the amount of nicotine in the cigarettes I smoke by, say, 20%, I can easily negate your action by buying and smoking 20% more cigarettes.
IMHO, there is only one sure way to quit smoking and that’s to just quit, cold turkey. Yes the first few days are Hell, but the physical addiction disappears after a week or so. After that, you have to conquer the mental addiction and that’s much tougher.
I quit in Dec, 1999 and have wanted a cig at least once a day ever since. Have always been able to stop the desire, but who knows?
Actually, the government may know exactly what they’re doing. As you mentioned, the smoker will end up buying more, maybe twice as much, as said smoker did before this government overreach.
Viola! That much more tax revenue to Uncle Sam.
Full disclosure: I never would have thought of this angle if you didn’t point out that the smoker would be smoking that much more.
You mean THC levels?
Coffee and cigarettes helped us win 2 world wars, go into space and build great things. All you get from using pot is crappy rock music.
Should be the same as they are nothing but drug delivery devices.
Time to stock up on vape juice.
BLOVJT ?
It doesn’t have a use-by date.
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