Cigarettes with less nicotine may help some smokers quit

If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products.

That’s the rationale behind a new rule proposed on January 15 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which seeks to limit the amount of the addictive chemical nicotine in cigarettes. The reduced-nicotine cigarettes would have less than 5 percent of the amount of nicotine that’s generally found in regular cigarettes. The rule would also cap the nicotine in certain other products in which the tobacco leaves are burned.

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