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>Nicotine reduction in cigarettes makes them less addictive and could help curb smoking rates, new study has found.

>A team of scientists looked at how reducing nicotine levels affected smokers’ habits, focusing on vulnerable smokers, poverty-stricken women and those with mental health issues.

>Interestingly, it found that lowering nicotine levels does reduce the addiction potential of cigarettes and that “in relatively healthy and socially stable smokers ... reducing nicotine content of cigarettes reduces their attractiveness”.

>In light of the findings, the Food and Drugs Administration in the US are set to impose changes on cigarettes in order to “protect kids and significantly reduce tobacco-related disease and death".

I have mixed feeling about the government regulating nicotine levels in cigarettes. Trying to improve the lives of people in your country is an honorable goal for government but I'd rather see an open free market in cigarettes where consumers have multiple choice of products to choose from like low nicotine, organic, non filtered, etc. Also, government doesn't have a good track record in looking out for the best interests of the people and there could be other nefarious reasons behind this new regulation.

#### Are health reasons the true intention of the government for adding this regulation or is there another motive? 
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Lets say the government cut the nicotine level in half and the price of cigarettes stayed the same. Sure that helps the people wanting to quit smoking but what about the people that don't want to quit? Those people will probably want to smoke more cigarettes to get their normal fix. I think this is a bomb shell win for big tobacco. You will have some people quitting but I think most will be forced to spend more on cigarettes which will just line the pockets of the tobacco industry, which by the way has been struggling these last few years to increase revenue. 

So you have to ask yourself who's really benefiting and are they the actually ones pushing this new regulation in the government. It sounds like a reasonable regulation until you start to think about it and I'm willing to bet big tobacco has been lobby for this behind the scenes.

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Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/nicotine-reduce-cigarettes-smoking-addiction-help-curb-study-uk-a7911716.html