The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month authorized the marketing of two combusted, filtered cigarettes as modified risk tobacco products. The products, 22nd Century Group Inc.’s “VLN (Very Low Nicotine) King” and “VLN Menthol King,” which produce all of the smoke and thousands of toxins of traditional cigarettes but practically none of the nicotine, are the first combustibles to be awarded MRTP status. Many tobacco research and policy experts question how VLN cigarettes met the FDA’s tough MRTP standard, which requires products to “significantly reduce harm and the risk of tobacco-related disease to individual tobacco users [...]