Senate eyes e-cigarette crackdown

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Sens. Mitt Romney and Jeff Merkley have penned a bill that largely tracks with President Donald Trump’s crackdown on vaping, according to a draft obtained by POLITICO.

“With nearly a quarter of high school students vaping regularly, we must take decisive action to prevent a new generation from addiction and serious health risks,” Romney said. “Vaping companies have hooked millions of our children on nicotine using e-cigarette flavors like ‘gummy bear,’ ‘scooby snacks,’ and ‘strawberries and cream.’ This means massive health consequences for the next generation,” Merkley added. “Refillable cartridges are an invitation to hazardous concoctions, and we need to get them off the market too.”

The legislation builds on a growing campaign on the Hill at odds with the vaping industry, from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s move to raise the tobacco purchasing age to 21 to a bill from Sens. Dick Durbin and Lisa Murkowski to take flavored products off the market. The Trump administration has also promised quick action against flavored vaping products, briefing leading senators on the issue last week after Trump’s announcement of new actions against flavored e-cigarettes.

Guns still widely available

Our Congress goes after boutique issues while the elephant in the room is ignored. When things go bad (and they are about to) will your elected be there for you? No way! The lazy cowards are not for us now.

But not guns. Not kids in cages. Not climate. Not government corruption. ......pathetic.

There is NO problem in the EU. Only the U.S. has problems. It is the kind of thing that makes you go hmmm?

Now that we totally won the WarOnDrugs we need to defeat the next big public health menace: that guy doing burnouts in his Subaru.

Only the bad guys will have the e-cigarettes now. We need to put more e-cigarettes in the hands of the good guys.

This tells me the e-cigarette industry didn't bribe, er I mean contribute, to enough campaigns last election. Rookie mistake guys!

This is stupid

What about the innocent people who died of gun violence? Oh wait that right the NRA is running our government.

While Trump CORRUPTION, COMPULSIVE LYING, Russia TREASON run BRAZIN!

Meanwhile thousands die because of gun violence and they 🤷‍♂️

Is this, perhaps, a smoke screen to take the focus off of 45's complete inability to preside over anything but his own greed and prejudices?

Half a million people in America die from tobacco every year, and that is perfectly fine with government... Hypocrites.

The tobacco lobby is quite powerful.

How does that jibe with the oaths you've taken?

Hmmmmmm. AR-15s though? Crickets

What about the guns?

Guess they didn’t grease enough Washington palms

Quick look over here at this shiny bauble. Now, look into my eyes, you’re getting sleepy, sleepy, now.... sleep!

Only way to stop a bad guy with a vape is a good guy with a vape.

My guess big tobacco wants them gone

So many people on both sides are upset with Barron for getting caught vaping right now 😁😆

The GOP doesn't want e-cigarettes to smell like fruit, but they want the air around us to smell like shit.

If only they'd acted as quickly over gun control

Whys it called the white house why does it gotta be white smh fckn racists

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