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 ...

Federal officials on Wednesday released a far-reaching proposal to make cigarettes far less addictive by capping their nicotine content ... FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, was sidelined ...

But the negligible amount of nicotine allowed under the rule would amount to both in practice. The FDA, which first considered this policy under Scott Gottlieb during the first Trump ...

The FDA first discussed limiting nicotine in cigarettes in 2017, under then-Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. This plan also included regulating e-cigarette flavors and banning menthol cigarettes.