WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced plans on Wednesday to remove all flavored e-cigarettes from store shelves in a crackdown on vaping after a handful of deaths and potentially hundreds of lung illnesses were tied to the practice.
“Once the FDA would finalize this guidance, we would begin enforcement actions to remove all such products from the marketplace,” Azar told reporters during a meeting with the president and first lady Melania Trump in the Oval Office. Wednesday’s proposal goes much further, banning the sale of all flavored e-cigarette products across all retail channels, aside from tobacco-flavored products.
“We have a problem in our country, it’s a new problem ... and it’s called vaping, especially vaping as it pertains to innocent children,” Trump said. “There have been deaths and there have been a lot of other problems.”Juul Labs Inc, which dominates the U.S. e-cigarette market, has faced withering criticism over the last two years after becoming wildly popular among teenagers.
In recent months state and local governments have also stepped in. In June, San Francisco approved a ban on the sale of all e-cigarette products, and last week Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced plans to ban flavored e-cigarettes in her state. While e-cigarettes are marketed as tools to help smokers quit, health officials believe companies are targeting a new generation of nicotine users.
Hypocrisy at it limits...what a nonsense and blunder decision. AR 15 killed 285 people in 2019 yet not a single ban. Tobacco kills despite bold warnings on cigarettes pack irrespective of regular/vaping.We need to think big seeing how people losing their lives due to lack of laws
Ban ciggs, alcohol, cars, doctors, hammers, ladders, ect
Right. 6 deaths we begin to restrict vaping. What if? We thought about gun deaths this way and wtf is the difference?
Don’t worry, in two days he’ll be back to his beloved wall or sacking someone. He’ll have forgotten all about vapes.
Vaping or gasping.....
How many deaths does it take to ban assault (AR-15,AK-47) type weapons? Are we past 6ARdeaths yet?
Fascist.
Vape doesnt kill people. People kill people.
I love you go straight from vaping to guns instead of the more obvious and vital choice, tobacco.
Looking forward to Trump banning Ford cars next. 500 deaths were linked to people driving Ford models!
Ah! For a second though you were talking of AR 15s!
another classic trump troll move, politics of division/ distraction
Mark my words. This is nothing more than a couple of sharks cornering the Vape market so one or two large corporations will dominate the business. This is just the part where they get rid of the smaller players.
BanEverythingThatCausesDeath NannyState
But what about the good guys with e-cigarettes. They can stop the bad vaping, right? Funny how bans are a great idea for realDonaldTrump when he doesn’t have $30 million is his coffers telling him they’re not.
Peter_S_Becks1 Let me see if I can understand the irony here. Cigarettes, Vapes, alcohol and guns are all legal. They all cause harm and eventually kill although slowly. All it took was 6 deaths 2 ban Vapes. But we can't regulate guns? Even after 250+ mass murders
So let's get them smoking those good ole fashioned Marlboros again... Trump is so corrupt, it makes stupid peoples head hurt.
But they couldn't ban assault rifles that kills thousands this year alone in the US. 🤔
Now do guns
Here come fruity cigarettes and chocolate flavored smokes. Those kiddos and their paper mache parents are not going to just switch to nicogum.
Many of the Trump supporters I know vape, so this is kind of hilarious.
NOT linked to normal vaping. These people are using illegal black market liquids containing THC and other additives. You call yourselves a news agency
Now do guns!
What guns are a okay
Meantime, we wait on the ban on assault rifles...
There's probably some smart ass response involving a smoking gun, but my brain's too tired to think of one.
Less than one year ago, one of the world’s largest maker of cigarettes bought the start up Juul. Now, mysterious deaths and Trump planning on banning e-cigs. Looks like Big Tobacco will be back in business growing & rolling...natural smoke..ban the E!
ShutDownDimona
ecigarettes Ces poisons qui n'ont fait l'objet d’aucun test sérieux devraient être interdits dans le monde entier avant que leurs fournisseurs n'en aient démontré l’innocuité !
Torn here..... govt should just say..’hey this shit will kill you.’ The gun comments are just ignorant. This isn’t someone running up and shoving an e cig in you mouth for month.... it is self enduced. Shit they should ban sugar if that is the case.
6 deaths = tragic. Thousands, because of the pathetic gun laws in the US = political collateral. From a bemused outsider.
Ok. Now do guns.
So e-cigarettes have killed 6 and you want to ban.... But tobacco has killed a countless number of people and no ban. Just like guns.... Wow tobacco GunControlNow WednesdayThoughts
What about banning AK-47’s and AR-15’s?
Just think if AR rifles were responsible for 6 deaths or more.... can you imagine how quick Trump would jump into action then?
Good start , hopefully they get to banning guns at some point ....or atleast act to show they would. Each election debates, they all rant about it and do nothing
Bad idea, if you’re going to ban flavored e-cigarettes, then conventional flavored cigarettes should also be banned.
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