cigarette brands high nicotine content In a first, the FDA announces its intention to reduce the amount of allowed in cigarettes F.D.A. Aims to Slash Nicotine

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The FDA stated: Following a rigorous science-based review through the premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) pathway, the agency determined that authorizing these products for the US market is appropriate for the protection of the public health because, among several key considerations, the products produce fewer or lower levels of some toxins than combustible cigarettes. However, the agency added: While todays action permits the tobacco products to be sold in the US, it does not mean these products are safe or FDA approved. It falls on harm reductionists to hammer home that HNB products are much safer than cigarettesas the FDA grudgingly acknowledged with its appropriate for the protection of the public health comment

doi:10.1136/oemed-2015-102995 Leaderer BP, Hammond SK (1991) Evaluation of vapor-phase nicotine and respirable suspended particle mass as markers for environmental tobacco smoke

Doug Luke, director of the Center for Public Health Systems Science at Washington University in Saint Louis