If successful, the policy could save millions of lives by the end of the century, and shape a future where cigarettes are no longer responsible for addiction and debilitating disease
A file photo of a deli worker lighting up a cigarette outside a bodega in Brooklyn, New York on December 10, 2021. Biden's administration is set to announce a new policy requiring cigarette producers to reduce nicotine to non-addictive levels. Image: Ed Jones / AFP