First on FOX: President Trump “Nicotine Freedom Crusade” could be prepared to roll back Biden-era policies related to nicotine and tobacco products and reverse the key rule that the experts who spoke to Fox News Digital will be an important step.
Biden’s FDA shortly before Trump took office I proposed the rules At the time, he described it as “bold” by limiting the nicotine levels in cigarettes and other burned tobacco products by minimizing or non-diftiv.”
Tobacco and “another specific burning tobacco products” are not permitted to have nicotine greater than 0.7 milligrams per cigarette under the proposed regulations. According to the FDA. The agency said that lower levels of nicotine are “low enough to prevent the addiction from being created or maintained.”
The FDA has argued that the rules “do not prohibit” cigarettes, but critics disagree, and are optimistic that Trump will continue to seek nicotine freedom and overturn the rules.
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“Biden’s legacy on tobacco policy is one of the ham-fist regulations, one of the bans that crippled bureaucracy and fueled large criminal markets from cigarettes to Chinese steam,” the former assistant director of ATF, executive director of Tobacco’s law enforcement network, told Fox News Digital Digital.
“President Trump can put his nails on that failed era co-hosted era by killing this insane ban on cigarettes and focusing resources on vigilance enforcement.”
Peter Brennan, executive director of the New England Convenience Stores & Energy Marketings Association (NECSEM), told Fox News Digital that “prohibitive tobacco policies” would “penge small businesses by removing sales from stores and pushing them into the streets and illegal markets.
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“Biden’s plan to ban all cigarettes is a real threat that still lies in his head,” Brennan said. “We hope that President Trump will support American convenience stores by stopping this tragic idea.”
Since taking office, Trump has taken several actions in the nicotine space. Rescising the proposed rules After years of defending smoking groups, the Biden administration tried to ban menthol cigarettes after saying it intended to make the ban a reality.
A few months later, FDA Tobacco director Brian King, whom critics believed was a key figure behind the administration’s efforts against Menthol and “war on nicotine,” was removed from his post. I spoke to Fox News Digital It was praised earlier this month.
“President Trump has successfully completed the nicotine Freedom Crusade since taking office, abolishing Biden’s misguided menthol ban and fired the FDA architect behind it,” the Republican strategist who worked on Trump’s election in 2024 told Fox News Digital this week. “The logical next step is to officially remove Biden-era rules to ban low-nicotine products.
Fox News Digital reached out to the FDA for comment.
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Biden’s “war on nicotine” has seen a surge in illegal Chinese steam that has been flooding the market over the past few years. It is believed by some He ultimately hurt his presidential campaign along with VP Kamala Harris, who replaced him with tickets.
“If President Trump withdraws Biden’s tragic rules to effectively ban cigarettes, it would be a huge victory for his working class coalition,” a person close to the Trump administration told Fox News Digital.
ALEC Schemmel from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
