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How Vaping Escaped Stiff Regulation

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This summer, the explosion of vaping-related illnesses sent medical researchers on an urgent quest to figure out why teenagers were showing up at the hospital unable to breathe. Years before this became a public health crisis, federal regulators had the power to crack down on e-cigarettes. Why didn’t they do it? Guest: Desmond Jenson, an attorney with the Public Health Law Center at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The last week, the fight over what exactly to do about vaping came to the White House.

0:41.0

And then, it was broadcast on C-SPAN.

0:44.0

This meeting, it was held in a cabinet room and it was packed.

0:50.0

Senator Mitt Romney was there.

0:52.0

The president of the campaign for tobacco-free kids was sitting directly across from the president,

0:58.0

jammed in between the CEO of Jewel and the head of a vaping industry association.

1:04.0

These people, they do not agree.

1:08.0

The advocates say vaping is just another way to get kids hooked on nicotine.

1:14.0

They're cigarettes without the smoke.

1:16.0

The industry representatives.

1:18.0

For them, vaping is a way to give adults who want to quit.

1:23.0

The experience of smoking with less risk.

1:26.0

It got awkward.

1:28.0

When you say it's a lesser problem that's smoking cigarettes, I mean, they say that, you know, the East cigarette just stops smoking and it's better.

1:35.0

You don't think so, Sally.

1:37.0

No, sir. Thank you, Mr. President.

1:39.0

No, nicotine addiction is not that. It's bad for the children's brains that affect them with their attention.

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