STAT June 12, 2024
Vallerie Biancaniello

If it were common knowledge that a company was targeting kids to consume highly addictive and dangerous products, you’d expect the government to do something about it. Yet millions of illegal vapes are being smuggled into the U.S. and sold widely — mainly to kids — and the Food and Drug Administration is doing little about it. The FDA needs to step up and end this scourge before the country finds itself in another vaping epidemic, this one caused by government inaction.

I’m a registered respiratory therapist, and know first-hand the terrible effect that tobacco and nicotine use can have on individuals and families. I’m also a mom, and the thought that these products are so easily sold to kids...

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