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A proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule that would outlaw certain cigarettes on the market in favor of products with lower nicotine levels could create a new black market that drug cartels will take full advantage of, according to an expert cited in a Fox News report.

“Biden’s ban is a gift with a bow and balloons to organized crime cartels with it, whether it’s cartels, Chinese organized crime, or Russian mafia. It’s going to keep America smoking, and it’s going to make the streets more violent,” said Rich Marianos, former assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO) Executive Director David Spross called the proposal “misguided as cigarette smoking rates are already declining and at historic lows.”

The proposed rule, formally titled, the “Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Certain Tobacco Products” has not been formally finalized.

“A proposed product standard to establish a maximum nicotine level to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products, when finalized, would be among the most impactful population-level actions in the history of U.S. tobacco product regulation,” the FDA said in a statement.