FDA Moves To Cut Nicotine In Cigarettes, Helping Smokers Kick Habit

(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News)

Cigarettes would contain less addictive nicotine — making them less attractive to smokers — under an “unprecedented” plan the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday.

Stripping cigarettes of all or most of their addictive power could lead 5 million adults to quit smoking within a year of the plan going into place and another 8 million to quit within five years, according to an analysis published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine. Continue reading article here…

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