NewsHealth & MedicineCigarettes with less nicotine may help some smokers quitA new proposal seeks to limit the amount of nicotine in certain combusted tobacco products The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a rule in January to drastically reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products in order to help people stop smoking.SimpleImages/Moment/Getty ImagesBy Aimee Cunningham9 minutes agoIf cigarettes contained very little of the chemical that keeps people smoking, it could help smokers move away from these deadly products.Thats the rationale behind a new rule proposed on January 15 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which seeks to limit the amount of the addictive chemical nicotine in cigarettes. The reduced-nicotine cigarettes would have less than 5 percent of the amount of nicotine thats generally found in regular cigarettes. The rule would also cap the nicotine in certain other products in which the tobacco leaves are burned.