Your thought is correct. In fact big tobacco used to do exactly what You said and it resulted in people smoking more when they reduced the nicotine and then the

Your thought is correct. In fact big tobacco used to do exactly what You said and it resulted in people smoking more when they reduced the nicotine and then they continued to smoke more even when they increased the levels, resulting in a greater addiction to the drug. I think they same technique is or was used by heroin dealers too.