FDA rule change could push smokers to vaping

[Marc411]

I like the direction we are heading.....

Media seems to be turning around their coverage these days.

Everyone knows cigarettes can kill. Yet 36.5 million adults in the U.S. still smoke.

So after the labels and warnings, the restaurant bans and the grisly ad campaigns, the Food and Drug Administration is exploring a radical approach to helping people quit: regulating nicotine in cigarettes. If the FDA follows through — something far from certain — the shift could prompt some to quit or, at least, switch to relatively safer products like electronic cigarettes or vaping.

FDA rule change could push smokers to vaping

 

[bobwho77]

"People smoke for the nicotine, but die from the tar"...
We've been here before with "Light" cigarettes. Lower nicotine per cigarette means that smokers will have to smoke more of them to get their nicotine fix, increasing the amount of tar, and all the other nasty chemicals in combustible cigarettes. Somehow, I don't see this as a good idea.

 

[Stubby]

It is not just a bad idea, it is pretty much completely loony tunes to believe it would work. All it will do is create a huge black market and then cigarettes will be completely unregulated, just as what happened during prohibition.

There are much simpler solutions. The easiest and most effective would be to simply tell the truth that there are ways of using tobacco and nicotine that have vanishingly low risk compared to cigarettes (smokeless tobacco and vaping) and then let people decide what they want to do. The cost would be pretty much nothing.

Fat chance of that