
The Biden administration is a step closer to lowering the amount of nicotine in cigarettes after an 11th-hour proposal cleared a key White House review. Why it matters: The Food and Drug Administration rule, whose precise language hasn't been made public, offers the administration one more chance to address the harms of smoking after it punted on banning menthol in tobacco products. Catch up quick: In 2022, the agency announced plans to limit nicotine levels in tobacco products saying an FDA paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine...