{"id":4301,"date":"2019-11-23T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2020-05-14T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T21:43:26","slug":"no-ban-on-vaping-flavours-quelle-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4301","title":{"rendered":"No ban on vaping flavours — quelle shock!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I totally did not see this coming: Trump backs off proposed ban on e-cig flavouring<\/p>\n

I kid — I totally DID see it coming.<\/p>\n

All along Trump has been acting like he’s somehow going to crack down on tobacco and the vaping industry and all along, he has been backing off. His original surgeon general, Scott Gottlieb, was actually surprisingly harsh toward both the tobacco and the vaping industry — and of course, he mysteriously resigned from his position to … “spend more time with my family.” (Seriously, that the was the reason he gave.).<\/p>\n

So, I’ve been somewhat skeptical all along about all the noise the Trump Administration has been making about cracking down on vaping flavourings in light of the epidemic of teen vaping use and the 2,000 or so people sickened by vaping fluids.<\/p>\n

SURE ENOUGH .. my instincts proved to be right. Trump never intended to go through with it.<\/p>\n

As soon as the administration got pressure from lobbyists (ie, the tobacco industry, which controls about 90 percent of the vaping industry), they totally caved. There will be NO ban on vaping flavourings.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I think the proposal was a bit of an overreaction to the 35 or so deaths from vaping. Not because those deaths aren’t a big deal. They are. But, because they were pretty much exclusively caused by vaping bootleg THC off the street.<\/p>\n

What ISN’T an overreaction is the explosive growth in teen vaping — and absolutely I believe having bubble gum, Rice Krispie Treat and Mountain Dew flavourings for nicotine vaping is a factor.<\/p>\n

According to CNN, the administration backed down because of fears it “would upset the base.”<\/p>\n

From CNN:<\/a><\/p>\n

A Trump campaign adviser told CNN’s Jim Acosta that Trump’s political aides, including campaign manager Brad Parscale, have warned him that such a ban may not be helpful with his base and that he should reconsider.<\/p>\n

Trump was persuaded by advisers to back off the proposal during a November 4 flight to a political rally in Kentucky, the Times said. Following the conversation with advisers, the newspaper reported that Trump canceled the administration’s planned announcement that was scheduled for the next day.<\/p>\n

The planned news conference, which would have included Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, was canceled and another meeting was proposed, according to the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I don’t buy that it was “all about the base.” There might be something to that, but honestly, I just don’t see this as a frontline issue with most people, not with impeachment hearings going on and children being thrown in cages at the border. I have a feeling this is really about lobbying.<\/p>\n

This American Prospect investigative piece<\/a> shows how much the tobacco industry has been fighting a ban on vaping flavours all the way back to the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n

From the American Prospect:<\/p>\n

Juul, already\u00a0under federal civil and criminal investigation<\/a>\u00a0over marketing to children, saw its CEO step down. But the replacement, K.C. Crosthwaite, was formerly a top Altria executive. A second, former Altria regulatory affairs chief Joe Murillo, is\u00a0also headed to Juul<\/a>. The alleged antidote to Big Tobacco has transformed into an adjunct of Big Tobacco overnight. And Juul had already been running the Big Tobacco playbook, hiring a bipartisan all-star team of lobbyists, from former Massachusetts Attorney General\u00a0Martha Coakley<\/a>\u00a0to former Trump administration adviser\u00a0Johnny DeStefano<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This week, the Trump Administration is holding a meeting with industry representatives and public health officials. Guess which side gets listened to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I totally did not see this coming: Trump backs off proposed ban on e-cig flavouring I kid — I totally DID see it coming. All along Trump has been acting like he’s somehow going to crack down on tobacco and the vaping industry and all along, he has been backing off. His original surgeon general, … Continue reading No ban on vaping flavours — quelle shock!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[847,252,901,21,894],"tags":[642,903],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-e-cig-bans","category-e-cig-flavourings","category-e-cigarettes","category-e-cigarettes-and-kids","tag-e-cig-bans","tag-e-cig-flavourings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/07VAPING-articleLarge.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-17n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4287,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4287","url_meta":{"origin":4301,"position":0},"title":"Flavoured vaping fluid to be banned","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"September 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, by now, you've heard the huge news\u00a0 ... shockingly yesterday, the Trump Administration has proposed banning flavoured e-cigarette fluids in light of e-cig illnesses that have struck hundreds of people and killed 6 people so far. 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