Cut Nicotine In Cigs
The Food and Drug Administration should adjust tobacco and propagate a plan to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, the Institute of Medicine urged recently.
Its presentation calls on Congress and the president to give FDA the right to constrain standards for nicotine reduction and to order companies’ claims that their products diminish exposure or risk.
"We offer aggressive steps to end the tobacco problem, that is, to reduce tobacco use so significantly that it is no longer a substantial public health problem. This goal is planned to be achieved over the next two decades.
Cigarettes are considered to be one of the most dangerous consumer products ever invented.
There is the sense not to ban the cigarettes if the level of nicotine in tobacco is diminished.
In the other hand there is an opinion that if the FDA reduced nicotine levels in cigarettes, people would change their smoking habits to keep to current levels of the addictive drug.
Cigarette maker Philip Morris USA has been supporting the legislation that would give FDA possibility to regulate the industry.
"FDA regulation generates a uniform set of standards for the manufacture and marketing of all tobacco products," Michael E. Szymanczyk, chairman and chief executive officer of Philip Morris USA said.
Cigarette smoking is mainly a 20th century development, the report stated. Earlier Americans used tobacco initialily as chewing tobacco or cigars.
In 1900 matures smoked approximately 54 cigarettes per year. By 1963 per capita consumption had increased to 4,345 cigarettes per year.
