Liz Essley Whyte

It's not gotten better in the years since the 2020 ban.

And he sees kids who are potentially going to be addicted to nicotine, and his thinking is, why would we do that?

That's a terrible policy.

Yeah.

So earlier this month, according to people we talked to, we know that Trump was having a weekend away and he started talking to some people and got upset and frustrated about the vaping issue and the slow pace of change at the FDA.

And he started calling advisors and saying, you know, what do you think about this Marty guy?

Like, what's going on?

What's the deal with the vaping situation?

Yeah.

and getting pretty spun up and frustrated.

And then we saw that following week, on Tuesday, the authorization for those flavors that McCary had previously stalled.

So mango and blueberry from Glass got approval.

We knew going into that weekend where Trump got upset about vaping that there were already people in the vaping industry and the pharmaceutical industry who had become so upset about certain actions that McCary had taken that they were already willing to call for his firing.

They wanted him out.

It appears that there were enough concerns inside the administration that officials did come up with this plan to oust McCary and got the initial sign-off from Trump.

We had a big policy announcement from the FDA that said,

hey, tobacco industry, if you have an electronic nicotine product or a pouch product that you've already filed an application for, you can go ahead and market it, and we're not going to enforce against that.

We're not going to come after you, basically.

So even while you're waiting for our official pre-market approval...

you can move ahead with selling these products.