FDA Targets Cigarettes in Broadening of Fight Against Addiction
- Health agency proposes cutting nicotine in tobacco products
- Shares of Altria, British American Tobacco plunged Friday
FDA Seeks Cigarette Nicotine Cut to Non-Addictive Levels
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Eight years after it was given the power to meaningfully change smoking in America, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration moved to do so.
On Friday, the FDA announced it would take advantage of powers in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act -- a law enacted under a Democratic Congress and then-President Obama -- to cut the level of nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels.