{"id":1525401,"date":"2022-06-21T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525401"},"modified":"2022-06-21T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T23:04:15","slug":"biden-to-push-plan-to-eliminate-nearly-all-nicotine-in-cigarettes-would-decimate-tobacco-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-push-plan-to-eliminate-nearly-all-nicotine-in-cigarettes-would-decimate-tobacco-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden To Push Plan To Eliminate \u2018Nearly All Nicotine In Cigarettes,\u2019 Would Decimate Tobacco Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-to-push-plan-to-eliminate-nearly-all-nicotine-in-cigarettes-would-decimate-tobacco-industry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525401&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is going to war with the nearly $100 billion U.S. cigarette industry by trying to implement a new FDA rule that would effectively ban nearly all nicotine in cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>The move reportedly comes as Biden tries to put energy into his cancer moonshot initiative \u2014 where he promised to reduce cancer rates in the U.S. by half over the next quarter century \u2014 amid his presidency that has been chalked full of crises that many have blamed him for, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/majority-democrats-blame-joe-biden-record-inflation-poll-1717669\">skyrocketing inflation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/05\/31\/gas-prices-biden-approval-clean-energy\/\">record high gas prices<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/republicans-target-biden-blame-over-putins-ukraine-invasion-2022-02-24\/\">war breaking out in Europe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/16\/politics\/afghanistan-joe-biden-donald-trump-kabul-politics\/index.html\">disastrous foreign policy decisions<\/a>, a catastrophic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017f-d8bd-d522-ab7f-debd59400000\">border crisis<\/a>, and a pandemic that Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/its-official-more-americans-have-died-from-coronavirus-under-biden-than-trump-despite-biden-pledge-to-shut-down-the-virus\">failed<\/a> to stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFDA officials said reducing nicotine in cigarettes to very low levels would prevent future generations from becoming addicted to cigarettes, and help current smokers to quit or switch to less-harmful alternatives,\u201d The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-administration-targets-removal-of-most-nicotine-from-cigarettes-11655842130?mod=e2tw\">reported<\/a>. \u201cAccording to an FDA study published in 2018, such a rule would prompt an additional 13 million adult smokers to quit within five years of implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tobacco companies have noted that the move could potentially eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs. The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/06\/21\/nicotine-cigarettes-biden-administration-cut\/\">noted<\/a> that opponents are likely to argue to \u201cscience does not support such a move\u201d and that \u201cslashing nicotine would boost demand for products on the black market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s plan likely would not take effect for years and could easily be reversed under a future administration or could lose to heavy lobbying by the Tobacco industry, which is expected to fight back hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe policy would apply to all cigarettes sold in the U.S.,\u201d the Journal added. \u201cImports of traditional cigarettes would be barred but multinational tobacco companies could continue to sell full-nicotine cigarettes in other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Guy Bentley, director of consumer freedom at the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank, said that Biden\u2019s plan would ultimately fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn practical terms, the proposal would ban most cigarettes currently sold in America,\u201d Bentley said. \u201cCombined with the Biden administration\u2019s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, this would amount to an effort similar to the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s\u201d \u2014 leading it to fail, he said, according to the Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is going to war with the nearly $100 billion U.S. cigarette industry by trying to implement a new FDA rule that would effectively ban nearly all nicotine in cigarettes. 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