# 2025-00397: Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products

2025-00397, Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-16, effective FDA proposes that any final rule that may issue based on this proposed rule become effective 2 years after the date of publication of the final rule.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-11).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00397
- Title: Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-16
- Effective: FDA proposes that any final rule that may issue based on this proposed rule become effective 2 years after the date of publication of the final rule.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## Summary

The FDA wants to limit how much nicotine cigarettes and some other smoked tobacco products can have to make them less addictive. This change aims to help people quit more easily and stop new users from getting hooked. Tobacco companies will need to follow these new rules, and the public can share their thoughts by September 15, 2025.

## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is proposing a tobacco product standard that would regulate nicotine yield by establishing a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products. FDA is proposing this action to reduce the addictiveness of these products, thus giving people who are addicted and wish to quit the ability to do so more easily. The proposed product standard is anticipated to benefit the population as a whole. For example, it would help to prevent people who experiment with cigarettes and cigars from developing addiction and using combusted tobacco products regularly.

## Effects PRIA read

- Maximum nicotine capped at 0.70 mg/g: benefit, high. FDA proposes to cap nicotine content in cigarettes and certain combusted tobacco products at a maximum of 0.70 milligrams (mg) of nicotine per gram of total tobacco. For comparison, the average nicotine content in the top 100 cigarette brands in 2017 was 17.2 mg/g, so this cap is intended to make t…
- Which products are covered or excluded: mixed, medium. The proposed standard would cover combusted cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, cigars (including little cigars and cigarillos but excluding premium cigars), and pipe tobacco (excluding waterpipe/hookah tobacco). The proposal would exclude noncombusted cigarettes such as heated to…
- Manufacturer testing, sampling, and records required: cost, medium. Manufacturers would be required to analyze nicotine levels using an analytical test method validated in an analytical laboratory, implement a sampling plan covering each finished product batch, perform product testing prior to U.S. commercial distribution, maintain records of testing and sampling p…
- Two-year implementation and sell-through rules: cost, low. FDA proposes the final rule (if issued) would become effective 2 years after publication of the final rule. Wholesalers, retailers, and related entities would be able to sell existing stock of finished tobacco products that do not comply with the new standard prior to the effective date but would n…
- Projected large public-health and economic benefits: benefit, high. FDA's population model projects that by 2100 about 48 million youth and young adults who would otherwise have become habitual cigarette smokers would not, and that 12.9 million additional people would quit smoking within 1 year of implementation (19.5 million within 5 years). The model estimates 1.…

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## Sources
- [2025-00397 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/16/2025-00397/tobacco-product-standard-for-nicotine-yield-of-cigarettes-and-certain-other-combusted-tobacco)
- [2025-00397 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-16/pdf/2025-00397.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00397 (as of 2026-06-11).