Cigarettes with less nicotine may help some smokers quit

A new proposal seeks to limit the amount of nicotine in certain combusted tobacco products

A person's hand holding a lit cigarette near an ashtray and a mug of peer.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a rule in January to drastically reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products in order to help people stop smoking.

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If cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products.