The White House wants to slash nicotine levels in all cigarettes sold in the US

Good idea, make sure all vapes etc are gathered in the same bag. Less nicotine = less drive to smoke = less drive to learn how to overcome the basic obnoxious aspect of smoke breathing - after all, it is the tars carried by smoke that cause cancer. rapid heating of vegetable matter followed by both steam distillation(reactions in abundance) followed by hot air extraction of the thousands of organics made = into your lungs a recipe for cancer. Nicotine on it's own is not a carcinogen, so it should be tolerated, but limited in the concentration in the vape liquid. Other crap in the vape liquid = regulated. As for me, I do not smoke or vape. If I find people by me smoking = I move. I also avoid the clouds of vapers vaping. Those clouds are there for visible effect = no nicotine, but they often have harm profiles of their own = begone...

Stupid question: if tobacco is a plant, and nicotine is naturally occuring and not added to the tobacco, how can this be done?

In the article, it says that nicotine is an additive, but then later on states the reduction could be accomplished by blending the tobacco leaves with other stuff to lessen the nicotine..

I'm not sure this writer even knows what's up.