National Journal, January 13, 2001 A few days after Christmas, I made my way to an office building in Bethesda, Md., for a visit with Paul L. Perito, the ...

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.

FDA floats plan to make cigarettes less addictive, but its fate rests with Trump By The Associated Press Published : Jan. 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM EST | Updated : Jan. 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM EST ...

The Biden administration is floating a long-awaited proposal to make cigarettes less addictive by capping their nicotine levels. But the plan is unlikely to take effect soon.

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