“I hate tobacco issues, I always have,” Grogan said. “And FDA shouldn’t be regulating this stuff in the first place.”
"Tobacco products should be regulated," Grogan argued — "just by a different agency", though he did not specify an alternative. But he drew a line between therapeutic medical products and vices like tobacco. Tobacco “shouldn’t be regulated by a health agency,” Grogan said, since it has “no redeeming qualities.” Grogan clarified that the remarks reflected his personal views, not formal administration stances.
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Joe Grogan, the director of Trump’s Domestic Policy Council, came at a careening news conference... Grogan’s comments on tobacco come as the administration has wavered on its attempts to ban some flavored vape products. They also follow two years in which Scott Gottlieb, Trump’s former FDA commissioner, made tobacco and nicotine product regulation a focus of his tenure at the agency.
Top Trump official suggests tobacco regulation distracts from FDA mission
I think he brings up an interesting point. I've always believed e-cigarettes, or nicotine harm reduction vaping was far different than smoking combustable tobacco. From a scientific perspective, nicotine used alone is no more harmful than caffeine, and may have some benefitual health effects for many individuals. Granted, nicotine e-liquid should be regulated by some agency, but I'm not sure that the FDA should be that agency.
And since the CDC seems to be having issues differentiating nicotine vaping from marijuanna THC vaping ... what agency is regulating THC and CBD?
They used maybe 20 seconds of a 10 minute interview. You can see me at the 2:40 mark in the video about 3/4 of the way through. I discuss all of the failed methods I had tried to quit smoking. My first time on TV. 
