FDA launches effort to cut nicotine in cigarettes, says smoking could drop by 14% FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Thursday called his agencys move historic and unprecedented. For the first time in its history, the Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to propose a rule that would lower the amount of nicotine in cigarettes, thus making them less addictive
In 2011, an FDA study estimated that if menthol cigarettes had been removed from the marketplace in 2010, then by 2020 approximately 4,700 Black Americans could have avoided premature death and about 461,000 wouldnt have started smoking
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