Really, I’m surprised Biden isn’t hanging at his beach house, whiling away his final days or something
Biden releases 11th-hour plan to lower nicotine in cigarettes
The Biden administration released a proposal Wednesday to dramatically reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, a move that anti-smoking advocates believe would save millions of lives even as it threatens the powerful tobacco industry.
The Food and Drug Administration’s plan to slash nicotine to minimally or nonaddictive levels represents a last-ditch effort by President Joe Biden to influence tobacco policy. The agency is proposing the policy in the waning days of his term, leaving it up to President-elect Donald Trump to finalize the effort – or scrap it – once he takes office.
Under the plan, tobacco companies would be required to cut nicotine in cigarettes to no more than 0.7 milligrams per gram of tobacco, which the FDA says is significantly lower than the average concentration in products on the market. The agency’s proposal would also apply to most cigars and pipe tobacco, but not to e-cigarettes or nicotine pouches.
FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, a cardiologist, has been a champion of the nicotine reduction plan, referring to it as “the number one priority” in an interview last month. The effort also aligns with Biden’s goal of cutting U.S. cancer rates by half.
Well, Marlboro lights actually have exactly .7 milligrams per gram. But, really, is this something they need to regulate? Is this their business? If people want their nicotine let them have it. Alcohol is way, way worse, and these same lefties are legalizing marijuana all over the country. You can smoke a whole pack of cigarettes and still be fine to drive. Not so with a joint, a couple bong hits, or some gummies. And, it sure seems like the products are way more powerful these days than back in the day when I did smoke marijuana. Just the average stuff is more powerful. I don’t do it, but, if someone wants to, have at it.
The smarter move would have been to attempt to regulate all the other ingredients, less chemicals. If you cut the nicotine then people who are used to the higher nicotine will actually, get this, smoke more. Regardless, just because Califf is on a Mission doesn’t mean that every Americans must comply.
???????? Zyn is officially FDA authorized, including flavors. pic.twitter.com/id7LFB2rdz
— Nicholas Florko (@NicholasFlorko) January 16, 2025
Well, good start there. Will they approve others, like Velo and On? Zyn is too expensive, especially since they only come 15 to a pack. Very good, but, I can get Velo’s for less for 20 per pack.
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Which means that those addicted to cigs will have to smoke more of them to get their fix!
Look, I hate cigarettes! My mother and my best friend both went to their eternal rewards far too early, both at 63, due to COPD caused by cigarettes. My aunt died of the same thing, though older than my mom.
My aunt and mother both suffered, having to keep oxygen around. My mother’s house was two stories, with ten steps up to the landing, a 90º turn to the right, and then seven more steps up to the second floor . . . and the only bathroom. Mom could make it up to the landing, and then had to stop and catch her breath before climbing the last seven steps. At least my aunt’s house was just one story.
But none of that makes this any of the government’s f(ornicating) business!
Well, who knows? Perhaps Joe Biden was doing Donald Trump a favor here, perhaps Mr Trump favors this kind of thing, and can blame it all on the dummkopf from Delaware when nicotine addicts stary combitching about having to buy more cigarettes to maintain their fix.
Teach types: I’m surprised Biden isn’t hanging at his beach house
He believes he’s doing what he can to MAGAt-proof America. Perhaps by making cigarette-based nicotine effectively more expensive per milligram, is a market-based approach for driving the addicts to less expensive, non-cigarette, sources of nicotine (e.g., e-cigs, patches, oral etc).
Cigarettes are a ‘legal’ drug delivery system. The drug is nicotine and is highly addictive. Nicotine exerts is physiologal and psychological effects through modulating the activity of the ubiquitous nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
Nicotine improves mood and concentration, reduces stress and anger, and relaxes muscles; Increases heart rate, blood pressure, and blood flow to the heart; increases the activity of the gastrointestinal tract; reduces the activity of some nerves, which can decrease muscle tone; increases energy expenditure and reduce appetite.
Smoking kills about 500,000 Americans each and every year. Fentanyl ‘only’ kills 70 or 80 thousand a year. Alcohol ‘only’ kills about 150,00 a year.
Of course, in a sane world, smoking would be banned.
But as pointed out… cutting nicotine levels in cigarettes could cause the nicotine-addicted to smoke even more. And the worst side-effects of cigarettes are not from nicotine but from the hundreds of chemicals in tobacco smoke. As ‘Dr’ Rush Limbaugn pointed out, smoking cannot cause cancer since only 15% of smokers develop lung cancer! 99% of other doctors disagree with ‘Dr’ Rush.
About 125,000 Americans die each year from lung cancer, 90% are smokers.
Larynx cancer: 85%,
Esophagus cancer: 60%
Bladder cancer: 50%
No doubt smoking contributes to the incidence of ALL cancers.
Smoking damages blood vessels; arteries, veins, arterioles, venules and capillaries, contributing to the number one killer of Americans – cardiovascular (CV) disease. Some 800,000 Americans die each year from CV disease. It’s estimated that some 25% of these deaths are related to smoking.
And yes, second-smoke can contribute to disease in non-smokers. Kids trapped in a car with smoking parents are exposed to toxic levels of dangerous chemicals.
every drug that has been recalled was also approved by the FDA