Reduced-Nicotine Cigarettes — A Promising Regulatory Pathway  

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Fiore, Michael ; Baker, Timothy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 373 no. 14 (Oct. 2015), page 1289-1291.

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In 1976, tobacco researcher Michael Russell wrote that “People smoke for the nicotine but they die from the tar”1 — suggesting a potential regulatory pathway for eliminating the key harms arising from tobacco use. That is, by reducing or eliminating nicotine from combustible-tobacco products, we might be able to dramatically reduce their use and smokers' dependence on them, averting the harm they caused. More than 30 years later, in June 2009, President Barack Obama signed legislation that permits the reduction of levels of nicotine, tobacco's primary addictive agent. Section 917 of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act states that the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shall provide advice, information, and recommendations to the secretary of health and human services on several issues, including “the effects of the alteration of the nicotine yields from tobacco products” and “whether there is a threshold level below which nicotine yields do not produce dependence on the tobacco product involved.” The legislation also contains a provision that prohibits the FDA from “requiring the reduction of nicotine yields of a tobacco product to zero.”

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