Reducing nicotine in cigarettes, good or bad idea?

Reducing the nicotine level in cigarettes to reduce their addictive power and, ultimately, reduce smoking: this is the proposal launched a few days ago by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American drug agency , which also regulates the tobacco market. An initiative that could ensure that “more than 33 million people do not become regular smokers, a smoking rate of only 1.4% (compared to 12.5% ​​in the United States currently, editor’s note) and more than 8 million fewer deaths by now 2100“, Says this health authority in a press release.

A priori, this proposal is not illogical. But is this idea as virtuous as it sounds? Answer with two addictologist doctors, specialists in smoking.