Most people quit smoking when the health and death risks became known, but some still smoke. Some studies show that switching ...

Misperceptions about nicotine abound. Nicotine is not the main cancer-causing component in cigarettes; still, many believe it ...

In fact, nicotine reduction to 0.4 mg/g, which is the nicotine concentration in very low nicotine content cigarettes (VLNC), is associated with more frequent efforts to quit, smoke-free days, and ...

In 2018, Dutch tobacco control champions filed a legal challenge to the tobacco industry after US tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, PhD, enlightened them to the low tar myth.

During the last week of the study, those given cigarettes with low amounts of nicotine — 2.4, 1.3 or 0.4 milligrams per gram of tobacco — were averaging 15 or 16 smokes a day.

Low-nicotine cigarettes generally contain less than .1 milligram of nicotine, compared with 1 to 2 milligrams of nicotine in full-flavored brands.

Cigarette smoking has been on a steady decline since the late 1990s, but rates remain higher in certain rural communities, and in urban neighborhoods among minorities and people of color. That ...

In the past several years, researchers have tried to understand smokers’ perceptions of what they are putting into their bodies. A group of researchers led by Rachel Denlinger-Apte PhD’21 investigated ...

The cigarettes tested were not the "low-nicotine" or "light" products that have been on the market for decades. Those brands used tobacco with regular nicotine levels and a vent system that tries ...

These cigarettes contained varying amounts of nicotine, ranging from 15.8 milligrams (mg) of nicotine per gram of tobacco (the amount found in most commercial brands) all the way down to 0.4 mg ...

Updated January 15, 2025 at 09:30 AM ET The Food and Drug Administration wants to limit nicotine in cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products, a move the outgoing Biden administration and ...