How to Build A Better Cigarette—And How to Snuff It Out. By Jonathan Rauch. January 1, 2001 ...

The idea, it says, is to make cigarettes less addictive. Nicotine is the substance in cigarettes that makes them physically addictive. But nicotine itself isn't what makes cigarettes so dangerous.

Reducing nicotine doesn’t make a cigarette safe, it just makes it less addictive,” said Donny, director of Pitt’s Center for the Evaluation of Nicotine in Cigarettes.

Menthol cigarettes account for about a third of the $80 billion cigarette market in the US. Banning them would represent a huge win for tobacco control activists, Rees says.

Cigarette nicotine levels could lower after FDA move, making them less addictive. Josh Hafner. USA TODAY. In what the Food and Drug Administration chief called a "pivotal step," Commissioner Scott ...