Despite previously being against it, the former president has appeared to change his tune on vaping, promising on social media on Friday that he would “save” it if reelected.
During his first term as president, former President Donald Trump issued a ban on flavored vaping products. But now, he appears to have had a change of heart, according to one of his latest posts on Truth Social.
“I’ll save Vaping again!” Trump said in the post.
In 2019, Trump was heavily criticized after he announced that he would ban all flavored vape products.
In 2020, his administration announced a limited ban on mint and fruit-flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes. That ban did not affect every type of vaping product on the market at the time.
The post shows that Trump is changing his position on some issues that may seem important to certain voters.
However, since Trump’s action against them, there has been far more movement in banning vaping.
In December 2023, the World Health Organization issued an “urgent” call to ban all flavored vaping products, saying it was necessary in order to “prevent uptake of e-cigarettes and counter nicotine addiction.”
In June, the Food and Drug Administration said that it would assign a task force of agencies to focus on the distribution of illicit electronic cigarettes.
In the days after that announcement, the FDA authorized the first-ever non-tobacco-flavored electronic cigarettes for adult smokers. The move was seen as a sign that the FDA believed some flavors could help mitigate the effects of smoking traditional cigarettes.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear a case involving the FDA and a marketing denial it issued for two companies that sell flavored tobacco vaping products.
Trump did not share any further what he would do to save vaping or what it was he specifically meant in his post.