Temple pulmonologist Dr. Jamie Garfield says the proposed regulation is an effective harm reduction strategy, but suggests it will take a significant lobbying effort for it to go into effect.

The proposed rule included cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, most cigars, and pipe tobacco. It does not, however, include e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, non-combusted cigarettes, waterpipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco products, or premium cigars.

The FDA has proposed caps on nicotine in cigarettes. The potential rule could reduce the concentration of nicotine in cigarettes by more than half.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a groundbreaking plan to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to a minimally or nonaddicti