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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 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Is There a Threshold Level of Nicotine Intake Associated with Addiction?

Delivery of Nicotine from Cigarettes

Threshold Levels of Nicotine in Cigarettes as a Way to Avert Addiction

A Possible Strategy for Regulation

Address reprint requests to Dr. Benowitz at San Francisco General Hospital, Bldg. 30, Rm. 3220, 1001 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110.

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