Three-quarters of people want less nicotine in their cigarettes

The mandatory reduction of nicotine content permitted in tobacco products should be part of the prevention agreement, according to Frits van Dam and Wanda de Kanter of TabakNee. This plan could count on the support of three quarters of the Dutch, according to the research of Maurice de Hond's Peil.nl.

According to a leading pharmacologist of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a major pharmacologist of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) significantly reduces nicotine consumption. This implies 0.02 to 0.07 mg of nicotine per cigarette. In the Netherlands, the current maximum legal amount of nicotine is 1 mg per cigarette. The FDA announced last March that it was investigating ways to fight the tobacco epidemic. One of the possibilities is to further reduce the nicotine content. This could affect young people in particular. The drug authority has not yet issued an official opinion.

In anticipation of this possible opinion, Van Dam and De Kanter plead in favor of a mandatory reduction of nicotine in the Netherlands: "It is an important way to prevent children from to smoke and maintain tobacco addiction. " So that should be part of it. The Prevention Agreement

At the request of the Foundation for the Prevention of Youth Smoking and Tobacco, the researcher Maurice de Hond (Peil.nl) conducted a study last week on the issue of prevention of smoking and smoking. opinion of the Dutch on the measures proposed in the prevention agreement. This shows, among other things, that two out of three Dutch people are in favor of "concrete" measures taken by the government to discourage smoking. A little less, but nevertheless a majority (57%) is in favor of an increase in the price of tobacco by increasing the price of a pack of cigarettes of 10 euros. And nearly three-quarters (74%) of the population would support government measures to force the tobacco industry to reduce the nicotine content of their products. Incidentally, only a quarter of those surveyed think that the government should totally ban smoking, broken down by smokers and non-smokers, the percentages being 15% and 30%.

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