In case you missed it, my most recent article is about the Trump administration’s changes to vaping policy:

Legalizing two flavored e-cigarettes is thus an important symbolic change, but vaping advocates may come to regret the way it came about. In public perception, this aspect of tobacco harm reduction is now indelibly tied to the second Trump administration’s slapdash, conspiratorial, and corrupt approach to public health.

Reporting from The New York Times reveals that the tobacco company Reynolds American made a $5 million contribution to Trump’s super PAC Maga, Inc., at the end of April. Trump himself had lunch with nicotine industry lobbyists and executives at one of his Florida golf clubs, during which he reportedly called Kennedy to complain about the FDA’s regulation of e-cigarettes. Less than a week later, the agency announced its decision to keep flavored vapes on the market, blindsiding officials at the agency and prompting Makary’s resignation in protest. Whatever the merits of the FDA’s new approach, this is certainly no way to make credible health policy.

Read the whole thing at The UnPopulist!