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The FDA just gutted the rules that keep flavored vapes and high-nicotine pouches off our kids' shelves.
The science has not changed.
The danger to children has not changed.
What changed?
On April 30, Reynolds American, the tobacco giant behind Camel and Lucky Strike, cut a $5 million check to a Trump super PAC. Two days later, Reynolds executives sat down for lunch with Donald Trump at his golf club to complain about FDA vape regulations.
Trump reportedly interrupted the meal to call the FDA Commissioner directly. Less than a week later, the FDA reversed course, opened the door to fruit-flavored vapes, and let companies sell unauthorized nicotine products while applications are still pending. The FDA Commissioner resigned days after.
This is corruption, pure and simple.
Nearly 90 percent of the 1.6 million middle and high schoolers who vape use flavored products. Nicotine before age 25 rewires the developing brain, worsens anxiety and depression, and hooks kids fast.
We know this.
The FDA knew this.
And they did it anyway.
A Secretary who claims to care about chronic disease just helped Big Tobacco addict the next generation.
If you want to know who this administration works for, look at who writes the checks.
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