Posted on 06/11/2022 7:24:34 AM PDT by algore
The Biden administration is planning to push a policy that would require tobacco companies to reduce the level of nicotine in cigarettes sold in the U.S.
The policy would see the amount of nicotine reduced to 'nonaddictive levels'.
Although it would likely not come into force for several years, the move would likely disrupt the entire tobacco industry.
The Food and Drug Administration first needs to outline the proposed new rules before inviting comments from the public. Then final rules would be published.
Even then, tobacco companies would be able to sue likely delaying any implementation of the policy reports the Wall Street Journal.
The administration had been weighing whether to push ahead with the policy as part of President Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative which hopes to reduce deaths from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years.
The move would be the biggest step by the government to curb smoking since 1998 when tobacco companies paid more than $200 billion to help states pay for healthcare.
The FDA describes nicotine as 'an addictive chemical found in cigarettes and other tobacco products.'
Although nicotine is addictive and gets people hooked on cigarettes, the chemical itself does not cause cancer, heart disease or lung disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blames other harmful compounds in cigarette smoke that are linked with more than 480,000 deaths in the U.S. each year,
The CDC calculates there to be 30.8 million smokers in the nation - about 12.5%. The numbers rose slightly in 2020 during the pandemic.
The amount of nicotine in cigarettes can be reduced through various methods including an adjustment in the blend of tobacco leaves or by using different types of paper or filters
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...something about nicotine that bothers liberals that ...practically no other drug has the same effect
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Nicotine blocks receptors that are also used by the C19 spike protein. Nicotine has been shown to be preventative for Parkinson’s.
What the control freaks hate is the odor and the tar film that accumulates in smoking areas. One person I know who quit decades ago says he still enjoys catching a whiff from other people’s smoking. While Puritans complain that vaped nicotine, which is odorless, is nauseating to be around.
Meanwhile, the legal pot gets stronger and now people end up with a syndrome from the stronger weed that makes pot smoking really uncomfortable and they have to quit.
Don’t forget the E! Explosives!
The story I recalled was from 1989, so it was quite a long time ago.
The prison could at least give them Nicorette lozenges or patches to keep the prisoners quiet.
Truth, if cigarettes had as much nicotine as God intended the plant to have, and they kept out all chemicals not natural to the plant, people would smoke less cigarettes and skip the stuff that really messes you up. It isn’t then nicotine per se, it is the actual smoke that smokes your lungs like a country ham. That is what causes emphysema. Cancer is peoples choice and you can’t protect them from everything.
I said much the same but the comment comes after yours, which is better stated.
Strange ....french used nicotine to fight covid...in 1 st months ....reported decent success
-PJ
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