With vaping products increasingly popular among youth and more than three dozen vaping-related deaths to date, the Trump administration may—or may not—be getting closer to moving forward with a ban on flavored vaping products first announced in September.
Last week, Trump told reporters, “We’re talking about the age, we’re talking about flavors, [and] we’re talking about keeping people working.”
According to CDC data, the rate at which middle and high school students are using e-cigarettes is rapidly rising, from 3.6 million in 2018 to 5.3 million in 2019. And the popularity of e-cigarettes far outweighs that of traditional cigarettes.
