Officials proposed limiting the amount of nicotine to make cigarettes less addictive, but it's unclear if the incoming administration will offer support.

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 their addictive qualities, making it easier for individuals to quit.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a sweeping proposal Wednesday to try to make cigarettes less addictive by lowering the amount of nicotine they contain, an eleventh-hour plan from

While it did not happen during his first term, reducing nicotine aligns with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement championed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick to be Health and Human Services secretary. “As a nation, we are having a ...

Making America Healthy Again’ is a complicated, messy, and massive undertaking bound to meet resistance. Reducing nicotine in cigarettes shouldn’t be

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Manufacturers who use Red No. 3 in food will have until Jan. 15, 2027 to reformulate their products, while those who use the dye in drugs will have until Jan. 18, 2028, according to the FDA announcement. Food imported in the U.S. will also be required to comply with the new regulations.

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History demonstrates that "prohibition doesn't end the demand for these products," said Neill Franklin, former director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership. The FDA proposal came about during the last days of the Biden administration.

FDA’s ban on Red 3 is a shot across the bow to the food sector that could ironically help facilitate Kennedy’s pursuit of further changes.

Federal officials on Wednesday released a far-reaching proposal to make cigarettes far less addictive by capping their nicotine content, a goal long sought by antismoking advocates that is unlikely to go into effect anytime soon.

The FDA proposed a controversial rule that would limit the amount of nicotine in legal cigarettes to 0.07 milligrams in a move critics have said is effectively a ban.