A Hail Mary toss of proposed tobacco regulation from the outgoing administration has the potential to make smoking nearly or totally nonaddictive, experts say.
Tips are the top, trash is the bottom. Cigs are mostly trash (low nicotine) with some mids (average nicotine).
Now, there’s an absolute shit ton of processing before it gets to consumer, but just fucking with that ratio changes the nicotine level. But it’s not like any company is doing that nationally.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more than normal variation.
But that’s why it’s so hard to mark the nicotine level, and why this hypothetical legislation would be hard to implement.
Like, I didn’t get into all that because not everyone grew up on a tobacco farm, but there’s just a lot wrong with this which is why I wrote it off as a feel-good idea that will never materialize.
Edit:
Or maybe they have intentionally manipulated nicotine levels…
There’s lots of tricks to use.
There’s three grades of tobacco:
Tips
Mids
Trash
Tips are the top, trash is the bottom. Cigs are mostly trash (low nicotine) with some mids (average nicotine).
Now, there’s an absolute shit ton of processing before it gets to consumer, but just fucking with that ratio changes the nicotine level. But it’s not like any company is doing that nationally.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more than normal variation.
But that’s why it’s so hard to mark the nicotine level, and why this hypothetical legislation would be hard to implement.
Like, I didn’t get into all that because not everyone grew up on a tobacco farm, but there’s just a lot wrong with this which is why I wrote it off as a feel-good idea that will never materialize.
Edit:
Or maybe they have intentionally manipulated nicotine levels…
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/other-tobacco-products/low-nicotine-cigarettes.html