Source: United Press International
“In what appears to be a last-ditch effort to limit [sic] the harms of smoking before its term ends, the Biden administration has proposed a rule that would significantly lower the amount of nicotine in tobacco products. The agency’s efforts to counter the dangers of the addictive chemical stretch back to 2018, when it first proposed the idea. Then, FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf went even further in 2022 and announced that the agency was developing a rule that would require tobacco companies to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.” [editor’s note: Less nicotine in a cigarette means more cigarettes get smoked — and it’s the tars, not the nicotine, that are most harmful. This is a recipe for, among other things, increasing lung cancer and emphysema rates – TLK] (12/12/24)