Implementing a nicotine cap to make America Healthy Again
Dana Mowls Carroll, Dorothy K Hatsukami, Olivia A Wackowski, Francis Joseph McClernon, Eric Donny, Mitch Zeller · 2026
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Dana Mowls Carroll and five co-authors argue in a 2026 commentary that United States health policy must cap the nicotine in cigarettes. Smoking still kills more than four hundred eighty thousand Americans a year. A federal health drive that skips smoking, they say, misses a root cause of chronic disease.
They revive a 2017 plan to set a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes. The cap would cut nicotine by about ninety-five percent, to below the addictive line. Studies show such caps ease dependence and speed quitting. The authors add two supports. First, fund quit-help services for the surge in people trying to stop. Second, teach smokers honestly how product risks rank, from lit cigarettes at the top to medicinal nicotine at the bottom.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dana Mowls Carroll, Dorothy K Hatsukami, Olivia A Wackowski, Francis Joseph McClernon, Eric Donny, Mitch Zeller |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |