In summer 2017, Trump’s first FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, announced he was pursuing an ambitious plan to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes. Tobacco stocks plunged. The following year ...

Zeller credited Gottlieb for advocating for the nicotine regulation within the Trump White House, after the Obama administration had fallen short. Obama officials had promised Zeller they would back ...

Nicotine levels in cigarettes sold in the ... said in a statement. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who served as FDA commissioner during the first Trump administration, said the FDA proposal is “an ...

But the nicotine limit doesn't apply to vaping products ... under Trump's earlier administration by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. The FDA said the rule aims to prevent underage smoking and ...

In 2017, then-FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb set the wheels in motion by unveiling a “comprehensive plan” that included an idea to “regulate nicotine in combustible cigarettes and ...

First recommended by a Trump-appointed FDA leader, multiple administrations have collaborated to snuff out this issue that costs the country $600 billion annually.

Health officials are pushing to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes and ... nearly seven years after former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb first announced the agency’s plans to make it ...

The Biden White House is expected to formally propose a plan ordering cigarette nicotine levels to be reduced dramatically.