Inside the White House, members of the president’s family, including first lady Melania Trump and senior adviser Ivanka Trump, have been helping to lead the push for a crackdown on youth use of e-cigarettes. ADAD“We need to be proactive before this gets out of control,” Melania Trump announced at an Oct. 9 White House event with former teenage users of the products. White House officials have said that banning e-cigarette flavors could help Trump with voters outside his core base, including suburban moms. ADAt the same time, there have been public signs of a crack in White House support for banning all favors, as Azar and the White House press office originally announced. ADSenior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway suggested to reporters Friday that menthol could be viewed as a type of tobacco flavoring.

Source: Washington Post October 25, 2019 19:51 UTC