FDA moves ahead with ‘historic’ plan to reduce nicotine in cigarettes

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    The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday took the first concrete action to reduce nicotine in cigarettes to make them much less addictive, opening a regulatory process described as a “historic first step” by the agency's top official.

    Commissioner Scott Gottlieb unveiled an “advance notice of proposed rulemaking,” the earliest step in what promises to be long, complicated regulatory effort to lower nicotine levels to be minimally addictive or nonaddictive.

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