Here are the facts. Millions of Americans are dying from cigarette smoking because quitting tobacco is extraordinarily difficult. Research, published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine, offers powerful evidence that vaping can help smokers quit cigarettes. Anti-smoking activists and government regulators promoting vaping bans and, in Senator Schumer’s words, fighting a ‘war on vaping’ are not advancing science or good public-health policy. On the contrary, these advocates and politicians are fighting technologies and products that could save millions of American lives.

Let’s stop the war on vaping; let’s take the politics out of health.

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A judge has ordered New York state to reimburse a vaping trade group's attorney fees connected to a lawsuit over the state's attempt last year to impose an emergency ban on flavored e-cigarettes.

Acting state Supreme Court Justice Catherine Cholakis on Wednesday sided with the vaping group that argued state officials overreached their authority and thus should cover the legal costs associated with fighting the ban.

Vape shops and the Vapor Technology Association trade group filed the lawsuit and are seeking about $381,000 in attorneys' fees and costs from the state.

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“The vaping industry is being treated unfairly. We are not the enemy here. Combustible cigarettes that bring 88,000 deaths per year are our common enemy. Why is vaping treated worse than smoking?” he said.

Earlier, a ranking FDA official admitted that the agency received grants from foreign anti-tobacco advocates The Union and Bloomberg Initiative when confronted by Nueva Ecija Rep. Estrellita Suansing and Deputy Speaker and Ilocos Sur Rep. Deogracias Victor Savellano during a public consultation on the guidelines.

Dr. Mata said they participated in the FDA public consultation “hoping for a robust and substantive discussion on science not fiction. We were treated to a farcical consultation, a mere tick-the-box exercise for the sake of simply holding one.”

He said there is “obviously a conflict of interest here. We are therefore constrained to believe that the industry is unfairly being treated by FDA in this regard, the reason now for these almost impossible guidelines.”

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Joining us today to discuss this possibility is Dr. Annie Kleykamp an experimental psychologist, medical analyst and evidence-based health advocate. Hear why she believes the COVID-19 pandemic is being cynically used as a golden opportunity to “prove” e-cigarettes damage the lungs and thus destroy the virtues of vaping.

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