September 14, 2019

A marijuana-related vaping disease outbreak gave the Trump administration the perfect opportunity to tackle another public health problem: teen e-cigarette use.

But the two aren’t directly related.

One of the crises largely involves pot, the other nicotine. One is driven by illicit marijuana vapes, the other by fruity-flavored nicotine vapors. But the epidemic of deadly lung sickness this summer created an opportunity that officials seized, with President Donald Trump’s Oval Office announcement this week banning the flavored vapes that have lured millions of teens.

Read more:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/14/donald-trump-vaping-crisis-marijuana-1733703