The US Food and Drug Administration opened the door on Thursday to reducing the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.
SMOKING CIGARETTES WITHOUT BEING DEPENDENT? THE FDA BELIEVES!
La Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has indicated that she will seek public input and will begin "to explore a standard to reduce nicotine in cigarettes to minimally addictive or non-addictive levels". Despite decades of anti-smoking campaigns, nearly half a million people die each year in the United States from smoking which costs nearly $ 300 billion a year in health care and lost productivity, according to the FDA.
«Today we are taking a decisive step that could bring us closer to our vision of a world where cigarettes are no longer addictive, where it would be more difficult for future generations to become addicted and which would allow more addicted smokers. to quit smoking or switch to potentially less harmful productsSaid the FDA delegate, Scott Gottlieb.
A study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine predicts that by reducing nicotine to a non-addictive level, the number of smokers could be reduced by five million in the first year of implementation. Eight million people could quit smoking within five years. And by 2060, the smoking rate in the United States could drop to 1,4%, from 15% today. According to this report, the number of lives saved could reach 8,5 million by the end of the century.
Source : Lessentiel.lu/
