FDA unveils plan to make cigarettes five times more deadly, expensive, and profitable.

Sorry, I don’t buy the cited research that smokers won’t increase intake. That’s the exact opposite of real world experience (across the board, not mine) switching from smokes to e-cigs. My hypothesis: *tapering* nicotine over time would work. Suddenly crashing nicotine to 20%, to please the zealots, will be a bonanza for cigarette companies, more injurious, and additionally the most harmful (financially and otherwise) to the most addicted. FDA begins push to cut addictive nicotine in cigarettes