return2ozma@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoFDA moves to cut nicotine from cigarettes, in plan first floated under Trumpwww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up186cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up186external-linkFDA moves to cut nicotine from cigarettes, in plan first floated under Trumpwww.cbsnews.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square21fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squareDroggelbecher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·15 days agoMaybe it’ll make more people choose smokeless tobacco, which is nowhere near as (but still quite) unhealthy? But yeah this seems paradoxical, nicotine is the least of your worries if you smoke cigarettes.
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·15 days agoNicotine is the chemical that gets you hooked and there is a reason birds in cities have been observed using them to line their nests to protect against mites.
minus-squarech00f@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·14 days agoI mean not the best argument against nicotine, plants make all kinds of wacky stuff to deter pests that we eat up. Capsaicin, caffeine, etc.
Maybe it’ll make more people choose smokeless tobacco, which is nowhere near as (but still quite) unhealthy?
But yeah this seems paradoxical, nicotine is the least of your worries if you smoke cigarettes.
Nicotine is the chemical that gets you hooked and there is a reason birds in cities have been observed using them to line their nests to protect against mites.
I mean not the best argument against nicotine, plants make all kinds of wacky stuff to deter pests that we eat up. Capsaicin, caffeine, etc.