I always thought this was an interesting (and odd) thread. “Smoking cyclists” seems like an oxymoron. But nicotine is a powerful addictive.
The FDA is planning on (or
hoping to) slash the amount of nicotine in cigarettes in order to make them less addictive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/h...igarettes.html
Unsurprisingly, the nicotine companies think that plan constitutes illegal government overreach.
“Altria and RAI Services have previously warned that a standard that makes tobacco unappealing to adult smokers would be considered a cigarette ban and would violate tobacco control laws.
“Both an express and a de facto ban would have precisely the same effect — both would eviscerate Congress’s expressly stated purpose ‘to permit the sale of tobacco products to adults,’” according to a letter in 2018 from RAI Services to the F.D.A. about an earlier proposal.”