Trump to meet with vaping industry, public health advocates as he mulls flavored e-cigarette ban
Trump said the administration was readying a ban on flavored e-cigarettes in September.Vape consumer advocate groups and vape storeowners around the country hold a rally outside of the White House to protest the proposed vaping flavor ban in Washington DC on November 9, 2019.President Trump has scheduled a meeting Friday with the vaping industry executives and public health advocates, among others, as he weighs a federal ban of flavored e-cigarettes, the White House said Wednesday.
"As the President has said, there is a serious problem among our youth and their growing addiction to e-cigarettes," White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement. "The policy making process is not stalled – it continues to move forward.
Faced with new data showing more than 5 million U.S. teens are now vaping, top Trump officials on Sept. 11 announced the administration wasThe White house earlier this month abruptly canceled meetings it had scheduled with companies and advocates to discuss the policy. That, along with the publication of two studies showing that teens prefer flavored e-cigarettes, prompted many industry and regulatory onlookers to anticipate the administration would unveil its plan.
Instead, Trump in a tweet said he would meet with "representatives of the Vaping industry, together with medical professionals and individual state representatives, to come up with an acceptable solution to the Vaping and E-cigarette dilemma. Children's health & safety, together with jobs, will be a focus!"
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