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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I see a correlation between the previous years in which generally thin people smoked a lot of cigarettes. Today, we have a lot of ex-smokers and an obesity epidemic.
I think we were a better country back when more people smoked. I don’t say that because smoking was necessarily good. I say it because once upon a time, the government didn’t feel the need to micro-manage every little aspect of your public and private life.
How many Americans died last year from smoken driving?
I quit in 1996. There were times when I really wanted one. At 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months. After a year I had no more desire. In fact when I am around people who smoke the Oder makes me sick.
They did this with Liquor years ago (restrict alcohol content) I’m surprised they never got to nicotine until now.
Unless the plan is to phase out nicotine altogether and make tobacco use worthless...
Which makes you wonder how long til they do it with liquor... or pot...
Of COURSE the fedgov want to lower the nicotine levels, as this will mean more packs sold, ergo more tax money to waste.
Mother trucking petty little micro managing control freaks all.
This is some BS, and I don’t even smoke!
There are many dangerous chemicals in cigarettes.
http://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/whats-in-a-cigarette.html
Nicotine is just one on a long list, and it is debatable whether it is even near the top of the bad list.
This is .gov being stupid as usual.
The dumbasses. Less nicotine per cig means people will need more cigarettes to get the same nicotine hit. Ergo, more tobacco consumed, and more cancer.
Things like this are why planned economies always suck.
Their choice. That’s what this is all
about. The freedom to choose is slowly
being taken away. Adults need no
babysitters.
I think the world is a much better place since smoking has been kicked outdoors. And I think people are healther as a result.
I wouldn't mind seeing the nicotine in cigarettes reduced to non-addictive levels. Does anyone really believe that the smokers aren't responsible for some of the insurance costs?
Maybe they just have to buy more cigarettes.
Anyone remember when they tried to cut down on nicotine delivered by punching small holes in the paper just before the filter? You could tell by watching people try to smoke them with a finger wrapped completely around the cigarette, or in a two handed finger squeeze. Some even resorted to tape.
Oh, no!
People will just smoke more. It’s the smoking that kills you, not the nicotine. An Oncologist told me that.
i guess chewing Nicorette while smoking or smoking two at a time is out of the question then
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