The FDA wants to cut cigarettes’ nicotine levels. Will that help people quit?
What would be the impact on cigarette smokers of reducing the amount of tobacco in cigarettes? Some research points toward an answer.
For the first time in history, the Food and Drug Administration plans to regulate the level of nicotine in cigarettes, attempting to bring it down to “non-addictive” levels. The move, announced Friday, was praised by scientists — who also noted that there’s no consensus on what a “non-addictive” level of nicotine is.
“I guess I personally would frame it as less addictive, because I’m not sure about that, ‘non-addictive,’” said Eric Donny, director of the that he wanted to reduce the nicotine level in cigarettes until they were “minimally or non-addictive.”
