FDA To Reduce Nicotine Content in Cigarettes to Non-Addictive Levels

[forum poster]

Overreach in my opinion. Just keep slowly increasing taxes.

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

and the sensation you get when you inhale, not the nicotine.

The sensation you get from inhaling IS the nicotine. Lower nicotine = less sensation . It's got fuck all to do with the routine of it all. I have also been a smoker for quite some time but now i use an e-cig and refuse to go any lower than 12mgs because anything lower and there is hardly a throat hit at all and it just ruins it for me.

 

[Arkain2K]

FDA ends Arkansas nicotine research after monkey deaths
January 30, 2018​

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has axed a nicotine addiction study at an Arkansas lab after the deaths of four squirrel monkeys.

The FDA issued a statement Friday saying the study was immediately put on hold in September when agency officials learned the four monkeys had died at the National Center for Toxicological Research, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported .

Three of the monkeys died because of complications involving anesthesia, and one death was related to bloat, the cause of which can be unclear, said Tara Rabin, an FDA spokeswoman. Rabin said she didn’t know when the monkeys died.

The study began in 2014 with two dozen male monkeys, half adults and half adolescents, according to documents on the FDA’s website.

Renowned primate researcher Jane Goodall wrote to the agency Sept. 7, saying the center’s treatment of monkeys was “tantamount to taxpayer-funded torture.”

“I was disturbed — and quite honestly shocked — to learn that the U.S. FDA is still, in 2017, performing cruel and unnecessary nicotine addiction experiments on monkeys,” Goodall wrote.

She said devices were placed in young monkeys to deliver nicotine directly into their bloodstreams. The animals were then put in restraint devices and trained to press levers to receive nicotine doses, Goodall wrote.

“To continue performing nicotine experiments on monkeys when the results of smoking are well-known in humans — whose smoking habits can be studied directly — is shameful,” she wrote.

An investigation of the lab found there was “a generalized lack of adequate oversight” that could lead to future problems, said Scott Gottlieb, FDA commissioner.

“Based on this (FDA) team’s findings, it is clear the study was not consistent with the agency’s high animal welfare standards,” Gottlieb said Friday. “These findings indicate that FDA’s animal program may need to be strengthened in some important areas.”

Gottlieb has called for a third-party investigation of all of the agency’s animal research programs, beginning with those conducted at the Arkansas lab. He said the remaining monkeys at the facility will be placed in a new permanent sanctuary home.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/fda-ends-arkansas-nicotine-research-after-monkey-deaths/

 

[Prutfis]

Put in less nicotine

Add more of the compounds that increase nicotine absorption and addiction.

 

[Prutfis]

lol

Lots of pharmaceuticals end up in the water supply. If second-hand smoke is a legit concern over limited exposure then we should put every other drug on the same scale of standards? Or maybe just accept it because...AMA?

If second hand smoke is so bad then what the fuck about car exhausts and smog in general? Take a 30 min walk along a major traffic line and you have inhaled 200 cigs