Marty Makary weighs opening door to flavored vape approvals
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Updated · Reuters · May 5
Marty Makary weighs opening door to flavored vape approvals
9 articles · Updated · Reuters · May 5
After Donald Trump rebuked him at the White House, the FDA commissioner discussed changing course, though no decision was clear.
The Wall Street Journal said Trump advisers warned Makary was hindering the administration's effort to "save" vaping, a campaign pledge aimed partly at young MAGA voters.
The FDA has long demanded strong evidence that flavored products help smokers more than they attract youths; only 41 vape products are currently authorised, all tobacco or menthol flavored.
Can new age-gating technology balance helping adult smokers with protecting teens from flavored vapes?
Do vape flavor bans create a worse health crisis by pushing former smokers back to deadly cigarettes?