The Trump administration will effectively ban all flavors of vaping cartridges except menthol and tobacco flavors, a step back from previous plans to ban all flavors.
announced in September that the administration would ban all flavored vaping products, saying the country needed"strong rules and regulations" to make them less appealing to teens.
"We believe that remains a possibility. But e-cigarettes as an off-ramp from addiction must not come at the expense of these cigarette becoming an on-ramp for addiction for a new generation of children, which is what is occurring today," Azar said on a call with reporters. "We think we're going to get it back onto the market very, very quickly, but we have to protect the children. We have to protect the families. At the same time, we have a very big industry. It's become a very big industry. We're going to take care of the industry," Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night.
Public health groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and American Lung Association said they were disappointed with the administration's decision to allow any flavored products to stay on the market. He said all the major public health groups are greatly concerned about the rates and degree of nicotine addiction in young people using e-cigarettes and that the loopholes in the Trump administration announcement are not enough to tackle it.President Donald Trump speaks to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar during a listening session on youth vaping and the electronic cigarette epidemic inside the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Nov. 22, 2019.
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