Former President Donald Trump, in a publish on Reality Social Friday, stated he would “save vaping,” regardless of banning flavored vaping merchandise throughout his first time period.
“I’ll save Vaping once more!” Trump stated within the post.
His publish seems to flip-flop from actions he took when he was president. In 2020, the Trump administration announced a restricted ban on mint and fruit flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes, however not all sorts of vaping merchandise.
In 2019, Trump had confronted some criticism when he introduced it could ban all flavored vape merchandise.
In December 2023, the World Well being Group (WHO) called for a ban on flavored vaping merchandise in a press launch. The WHO had stated that the ban was essential to “forestall uptake of e-cigarettes and counter nicotine habit” within the launch.
In June, the Meals and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announced a job pressure of companies centered on cracking down on the distribution of illicit digital cigarettes. Later that month, the FDA then authorized the primary nontobacco flavored digital cigarettes for grownup people who smoke, signaling the company believed some flavors of vaping merchandise may very well be used to mitigate the consequences of smoking conventional cigarettes.
The Supreme Court docket introduced earlier this 12 months that it’ll hear a case involving the FDA advertising denial of two firms that promote flavored tobacco vaping merchandise.