President Trump routinely boasts of unshackling the economy by cutting red tape. But one industry may be about to face an onslaught of regulations, as senior members of his administration discuss a crackdown on electronic cigarettes.
Now long-simmering debate over flavors and popular vaping models appears to be reaching a head, with Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar outlining a possible crackdown in the Washington Post this month.
Gottlieb and Azar warned of “an epidemic” of youth use, citing unreleased 2018 data from the the National Youth Tobacco Survey that found a 75 percent jump in use by high schoolers and a 50 percent hike among middle-school students.
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