Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) speaks as President Donald Trump listens throughout a cupboard assembly on the White Home on November 22, 2019 in Wash
Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) speaks as President Donald Trump listens throughout a cupboard assembly on the White Home on November 22, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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President Donald Trump raised his concern about potential unfavourable penalties of banning flavored e-cigarettes throughout a generally hostile assembly on Friday with vaping business executives and public well being advocates.
Trump on Sept. 11 mentioned the administration was readying a ban on flavored e-cigarettes. Greater than two months later, he reportedly reversed course and refused to log off on that plan. He invited executives from tobacco and e-cigarette corporations, together with market chief Juul, in addition to public well being teams such because the Marketing campaign for Tobacco-Free Youngsters, to make their case.
Trump requested the contributors for his or her options to the epidemic. Public well being advocates urged Trump to comply with by means of along with his authentic plan to take away flavored e-cigarettes from the market. Trump repeatedly mentioned the prospect of unlawful — and presumably extra dangerous — merchandise filling the void alarmed him.
“In case you do not give it to them, it may come right here illegally,” Trump mentioned to a refrain of “sure” and “you are proper” responses from vaping advocates. “And as an alternative of Reynolds or Juul or respectable corporations, good corporations making one thing protected, they are going to be…