The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently authorized a tobacco company to market a reduced nicotine cigarette as a reduced risk product, despite the fact it contains all the regular carcinogens found in regular cigarettes.
While most remain misinformed about the health risks derived from consuming nicotine, public health experts have repeatedly highlighted that it is the tar and other carcinogenic chemicals found in cigarettes that cause disease, not nicotine.
Despite the science on this, the FDA has just granted The 22nd Century Group the right to market its VLN King and VLN Menthol King combusted, filtered cigarettes as modified risk tobacco products. In his blog, tobacco harm reduction expert Clive Bates is calling this move as the agency’s “most ill-judged moves to date,” as these products still produce all the smoke and thousands of toxins as traditional cigarettes but practically none of the nicotine.
Diane Caruana – VapingPost – 2022-09-01.
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