FDA commissioner: Safer tobacco products can provide ‘satisfying levels of nicotine’ to people who want it
From: CNBC
- “We’ve opened up a pathway to new product innovations that we think can potentially provide nicotine to people who still want to enjoy satisfying levels of nicotine,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb says.
- “It’s not the nicotine that kills you, it’s all the other carcinogens in lighting tobacco on fire,” he adds.
The Food and Drug Administration has provided options for companies to offer safer alternatives to cigarettes, so people can still enjoy “satisfying levels of nicotine” without the risks of tobacco smoke, the agency’s commissioner told CNBC on Thursday.
“We’ve set out a plan to try to reduce nicotine levels to nonaddictive or minimally addictive levels to transition people off combustible cigarettes,” said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, FDA commissioner.
