Nicotine isn’t the worst component in cigarettes it’s the chemical reactions created when burning and inhaling plant matter. Reducing the nicotine levels will just drive people to smoke even more cigarettes.

If they really wanted people to quit smoking they would have banned cigarettes instead of decimating the vaping industry like they did years ago, but vaping wasn’t part of the revenue generating Master Settlement Agreement the government made with the cigarette companies, so it had to be almost completely wiped out while cigarettes remain available for sale in every corner store, gas station, and grocery store in the country.