The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to play whack-a-mole on tobacco policies.
The leading regulatory agency that oversees everything from food staples to pharmaceuticals to tobacco products still can’t understand that smoking rates are at all-time lows and continues with prohibitionist policies it likes to call “product standards.”
Earlier this year, the FDA announced new “product standards” that seek to eliminate menthol in combustible cigarettes and flavors in cigars. Now, the agency is doubling down in the form of taking on nicotine, and in doing so, is sowing nothing but confusion to the population that continue to smoke without understanding that there are less harmful forms of nicotine.
On June 21, the Biden administration announced they would push the FDA to develop a new product standard requiring manufacturers to “reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products.”
Lindsey Stroud – Taxpayer Protection Alliance – 2022-06-09.
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