The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week floated a plan to make cigarettes and other tobacco non-addictive, although such a decision would have to be made by President-elect Donald Trump when he returns to the White House.
The agency is “proposing a tobacco product standard that would regulate nicotine yield by establishing a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products,” said its proposal, set to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday.
The agency said it would propose the rule in a bid to “reduce the addictiveness of these products, thus giving people who are addicted and wish to quit the ability to do so more easily.”…