America’s leading cause of preventable death used to be smoking. Today, it is increasingly the synthetic drugs flooding our streets, especially fentanyl, that take the most lives in raw numbers. Yet in the background, cigarette smoking still quietly kills nearly half a million Americans every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Unlike the fentanyl crisis, which demands law enforcement and border solutions, the smoking epidemic already has a clear scientific and technological cure. Federal regulation keeps that cure locked away. Millions who might quit remain trapped by a system that treats all nicotine as if it were equally deadly. The truth is simpler and long established: the problem is not nicotine; it is combustion.

The science is unambiguous. Cigaret

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