Trump vows to ‘save’ vaping after private meeting with vaping lobbyist
Trump vows to ‘save’ vaping after private meeting with vaping lobbyist
The episode reflects the way Trump takes policy positions — and the support he’s finding from Big Tobacco as he campaigns for president again.
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It makes me sick to say it, but Trump is right on this one. If the FDA hadn't cracked down so hard on open systems, sketchy disposable vapes wouldn't be as prolific as they are now.
The FDA implemented the PMTA (Premarket Tobacco product Application) process. This means that anything vaping related must get their approval before it can be sold in the US.
This sounds good on the surface, but it's not for two reasons: products without nicotine are considered tobacco products, and literally every SKU has to go through the process.
A single application costs over $250,000. This means if you are an eliquid manufacturer and have 5 flavors with 4 different strengths each, you have to submit 20 applications. That money is gone if you don't get approved, and the FDA has only approved a handful of them.
This caused nearly every reputable manufacturer to close shop and left the sketchy companies who will just rebrand after getting shut down.
All of this for a product that legitimate studies show is 95% safer than smoking.
When did the FDA finalize that policy? January 2, 2020.
Who was still president? Donald Trump.
True, but the FDA gained the power to regulate tobacco products in 2009.
That doesn't mean they had to ban flavored vapes. That was 100% Trump.
Ya know, I've heard of all this before but all the vape shops I've been to have been... practically unaffected, with all the flavors and mods, coils and such one wants. Are they all just running until they get shutdown? Lol
Its a lot harder to shop online, but yeah, local vape stores havent had any issues stocking it would appear. Candy king and custard monster seem to be uneffected.
The FDA implemented the PMTA (Premarket Tobacco product Application) process. This means that anything vaping related must get their approval before it can be sold in the US.
I had to look up the PMTA as I’d never heard about it. Wasn’t this implemented back in the 2000s?
They were given the ability in 2009, but they didn't apply it to vaping until the 2010s