{"id":7623,"date":"2017-07-31T09:44:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2017-07-31T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:44:21","slug":"the-fda-wants-to-cut-cigarettes-nicotine-levels-will-that-help-people-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7623","title":{"rendered":"The FDA wants to cut cigarettes\u2019 nicotine levels. Will that help people quit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<br \/>\n<span class=\"big-cap\">F<\/span>or 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 \u201cnon-addictive\u201d levels. The move, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/07\/28\/fda-announces-plans-to-slash-nicotine-levels-in-cigarettes\/\">announced Friday<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup>, was praised by scientists \u2014 who also noted that there\u2019s no consensus on what a \u201cnon-addictive\u201d level of nicotine is. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/07\/31\/nicotine-science\/\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ike Swetlitz for STAT) For the first time in history the Food and Drug Administration plans to regulate the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}