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Vin Gupta: The cowardice behind Trump’s vaping ban retreat

Is there any limit to the Trump administration’s willingness to endanger public health and safety for political purposes?

First, it weakened environmental protection standards, despite clear evidence that the air we breathe is irreparably harming us and our children. Then it formally left the Paris Agreement on climate change, despite its being the only available option to help address our worsening air. Now the president has walked back his promise to regulate the vaping industry and ban most flavored e-cigarettes, even as they render an entire generation more vulnerable to nicotine addiction — not to mention life-altering severe lung injury.