The FDA has proposed a new rule to limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes sold in the US as a first prong of its attack on the addictive nature of the products.
Nicotine is the active part of tobacco which most scientists think is to blame for both the stimulating and addictive effects of cigarette smoking.
Despite widespread efforts by US regulators and the World Health Organization to stem the sale of cigarettes and their devastating public health consequences, smoking kills 480,000 Americans every year.
The FDA first announced its intent to regulate nicotine levels in 2009, but the formal notice, published on Thursday, marks the first real action the agency has been able to take after spending years hamstrung by Big Tobacco's legal challenges.
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But BAN bumpstocks and triggers!
ReplyDeleteGood, tax dollars should not be used to fund medical treatment brought on and exacerbated by such a disgusting habit
ReplyDeleteThat is their way of making us buy more. lol (map)
ReplyDeleteCan't get your normal nicotine buzz off one smoke? Smoke two or three!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteGood, tax dollars should not be used to fund medical treatment brought on and exacerbated by such a disgusting habit
March 16, 2018 at 4:38 PM
Tax dollars should have been spent to prevent births of people like you.
tax dollars that came from the sale of cigarettes
DeleteKilling more people then guns and opioids added together x10 but lest focus on shot guns.
ReplyDeleteMap has it right.
ReplyDeleteReduction in nicotine will result in increase in usage.
Simple as that.
Just ban them. Stop making them if you are concerned about people dying from something they enjoy and/or addicted to. If it's so damn disgusting of a habit, BAN them. You want to ban everything else. But can you give up the money associated with them? I bet no. Tobacco companies were sued for hundreds of millions of dollars, yet did that cause them to go out of business? Of course not. Are people still smoking? Of course, they are.
ReplyDeleteNow, is this really about people's health? Or is it just another tactic to increase sales, and therefore tax monies? I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusions.