A Hail Mary toss of proposed tobacco regulation from the outgoing administration has the potential to make smoking nearly or totally nonaddictive, experts say.
Nicotine is not coffee, it is insanely addictive physically along with a mental addiction to the act of smoking.
But this isn’t just for people who want to quit, this is for all cigarettes.
So say this actually happens and a 50% reduction in nicotine. Smokers will smoke twice as many, getting twice the smoke. The carcinogens from the smoke is what’s giving people lung cancer, not the nicotine.
Less nicotine a cigarette = more cigs = more smoke = more negative health effects
Do you have data on this, or is it speculation? Because I would speculate that the majority of smokers would keep the habit the same and be weaned off nicotine, and only be habituated instead of addicted, making it much easier to kick.
I don’t think it would. Same as people replacing their coffee with decaf to kick that habit.
Nicotine is not coffee, it is insanely addictive physically along with a mental addiction to the act of smoking.
But this isn’t just for people who want to quit, this is for all cigarettes.
So say this actually happens and a 50% reduction in nicotine. Smokers will smoke twice as many, getting twice the smoke. The carcinogens from the smoke is what’s giving people lung cancer, not the nicotine.
Less nicotine a cigarette = more cigs = more smoke = more negative health effects
It ain’t complicated
Do you have data on this, or is it speculation? Because I would speculate that the majority of smokers would keep the habit the same and be weaned off nicotine, and only be habituated instead of addicted, making it much easier to kick.
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“Easier”
It does look like there was a HHS study last year that thinks it might help, but it’s not linked online
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/other-tobacco-products/low-nicotine-cigarettes.html
I dunno, I ran into a roadblock when source 17 wasn’t linked and can’t devote too much time to chasing it down right now.
It’s quite literally common sense.