After 'she's got a son' fiasco, Donald Trump has an important message for Barron: 'Don't vape'
President Donald Trump explained how he and his wife are tackling the growing problem of vaping a day after announcing his plan to ban flavored vaping products, especially since they have a teenage son at home. “We haven’t told him anything but ‘don’t vape, don’t vape,'" the president told reporters on the South Lawn when asked about what he's told his 13-year-old son Barron about the habit. "Don't vape. We don't like vaping. I don't like vaping."
Trump met with the press on Thursday evening before flying to Baltimore, where he was scheduled to deliver remarks at a three-day recreational event for GOP members of the House of Representatives, USA Today reports. He announced the previous day he would seek a ban on the sale of flavored vaping products to save young people from the potential dangers of e-cigarettes.
Following a White House meeting with health policy advisers on Wednesday, Trump noted that vaping was "causing a lot of problems and we're going to have to do something about it." "There have been deaths and there have been a lot of other problems," he added.
Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the Food and Drug Administration will soon issue guidance on how to take the products off the market.
"It'll take several weeks for us to put out the final guidance that will announce all the parameters around the enforcement policy, and then there will likely be about a 30-day delay to the effective date, as is customary," Azar said. But "at that point, all flavored e-cigarettes other than tobacco flavor would have to be removed from the market."
In a statement, the FDA said it would soon release details on a policy aimed at removing unauthorized, flavored e-cigarette products from the market, especially as they are sold under an FDA waiver.
That said, it is uncertain whether vaping companies will take legal action to block the proposed ban. Amid rising concerns about the physical effects of e-cigarettes, members of Congress have also discussed taking action. More than 450 cases of lung disease are currently under investigation by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention after some officials believe they were triggered by vaping.
Furthermore, at leastsix deaths have been linked to lung diseases from vaping.