If conventional cigarettes are banned, many consumers would turn to the black market rather than settle for legal very low ...

The FDA has spent years studying the issue and said Wednesday that reducing nicotine would help nearly 13 million current ...

Tobacco companies experimented with low-nicotine products, including Philip Morris’s Next cigarettes in the 1980s and Vector Tobacco’s Quest brand in the early 2000s. They flopped.

Temple pulmonologist Dr. Jamie Garfield says the proposed regulation is an effective harm reduction strategy, but suggests it ...

The proposed rule, in the absence of full official endorsement of safer nicotine products, has a range of potential harms, experts say.

The FDA's proposed rule would slash nicotine levels in cigarettes, most cigars and other combustible tobacco products, but not vapes, hookahs or Zyn.

Nicotine is the substance in cigarettes that makes them highly addictive, and Erika Sward, assistant vice president of national advocacy at the American Lung Association, says capping the amount ...

If finalized, the change would mean that cigarettes would lose their ability to hook most people into addiction.

Tobacco companies will need to cut nicotine levels to 0.7 milligrams per gram of tobacco, a fraction of the 17.2 milligrams per gram that most cigarette brands have on average ... Philip Morris sold a ...

The rule proposes a maximum nicotine level of 0.7 milligrams (mg) per gram of tobacco -- a significant decrease from current ...

Brian King, director of the FDA’s Center of Tobacco Products, said Wednesday that reducing the amount of nicotine in tobacco products to the levels proposed in the new rule should significantly reduce ...