Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

At the eleventh hour, mere weeks before Donald Trump takes office, President Joe Biden’s bureaucratic nanny state wants to take one last swipe at the classic working man’s vice: cigarettes.

A new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule, which cleared an important review from the Office of Management and Budget on Friday, Axios reported, would lower the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.

Although anti-cigarette advocates say that lower nicotine levels would drastically reduce the addictive nature of smokes — duh! — Guy Bentley, the director of consumer freedom at the libertarian think tank Reason Foundation, argued the rule amounts to a “ban” on cigarettes. He also told Axios that this practical ban would incentivize bad actors, such as Mexican drug cartels and the Chinese Communist Party, to create a harmful black market.

“The Biden administration is essentially planning to deliver an $80 billion market........

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