Zeller credited Gottlieb for advocating for the nicotine regulation within the Trump White House, after the Obama administration had fallen short. Obama officials had promised Zeller they would back rules to curb nicotine and menthol.
The proposal in the waning days of the Biden administration leaves it up to President-elect Donald Trump to finalize the effort — or scrap it.
"I'm hoping the increased education makes a difference," said Nicholas Gallo, 26, of Deer Park, who called his generation already "well-informed" while expressing support for the federal proposals.
Officials proposed limiting the amount of nicotine to make cigarettes less addictive, but it's unclear if the incoming administration will offer support.
The FDA's proposed rule would slash nicotine levels in cigarettes, most cigars and other combustible tobacco products, but not vapes, hookahs or Zyn.
The Biden White House is expected to formally propose a plan ordering cigarette nicotine levels to be reduced dramatically.
President-elect Donald Trump and his health nominees have not ... The FDA has spent years studying the issue and said Wednesday that reducing nicotine would help nearly 13 million current smokers ...
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where a plan to reduce nicotine levels was first proposed. The move comes just days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, where his pick to run the Department of the Health and ...
That means the nicotine rule would be administered under President-elect Donald Trump, who has nominated Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary to lead the agency that regulates drugs, devices ...
The Food and Drug Administration is moving to cut out addictive nicotine from cigarettes ... which was first floated during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. At the time, the head ...
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is moving to cut out addictive nicotine from cigarettes ... first floated during President-elect Donald Trump's first term. At the time, the ...