Nicotine Reduction Standard in Cigarettes and Estimated Lives Saved and Deaths Averted.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A potential policy that has been receiving substantial attention is a nicotine reduction standard (NRS) in cigarettes and other select combusted tobacco products. In 2025, the policy moved to the next phase required for future implementation, which entailed opening the policy to public comment. To date, the significance of this standard has been estimated only for the overall US population.

Objective

To estimate the significance of an NRS by race and ethnicity, rural vs urban residence, and sex.

Design, setting, and participants

The adaptive dynamic simulation model assumed enactment of an NRS in 2025 and was parameterized with population-specific inputs from the 2014 to 2015 and/or 2018 to 2019 Tobacco Use Supplement of the Current Population Survey and th

SUBMITTER: Carroll DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12514631 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature