Establishing a Nicotine Threshold for Addiction -- The Implications for Tobacco Regulation

On February 25, 1994, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a letter to the Coalition on Smoking or Health announcing its intention to consider regulating cigarettes. The agency's premises were that the vast majority of tobacco users self-administer the product for the drug effects of...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 331; no. 2; pp. 123 - 125
Main Authors Benowitz, Neal L, Henningfield, Jack E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, MA Massachusetts Medical Society 14.07.1994
Subjects
Addictions
Bioavailability
Biological and medical sciences
Carbon monoxide
Cigarettes
Drug use
Federal regulation
Health services
Humans
Medical sciences
Nicotine
Psychopharmacology
Public health
Smoking - legislation & jurisprudence
Smoking cessation
Substance-Related Disorders
Surgeons General
Tobacco
Tobacco, tobacco smoking
Toxicology
United States
United States Food and Drug Administration
United States
Human
Drug addiction
Exploration
Tobacco smoking
Nicotine
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Summary:On February 25, 1994, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a letter to the Coalition on Smoking or Health announcing its intention to consider regulating cigarettes. The agency's premises were that the vast majority of tobacco users self-administer the product for the drug effects of nicotine and to sustain addiction and that cigarette manufacturers control the levels of nicotine in cigarettes to maintain this addiction. The FDA further raised the possibility of regulating cigarettes on the basis of their nicotine content to prevent addiction. On February 28, 1994, the ABC news program Day One presented evidence that tobacco manufacturers . . .
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM199407143310212