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S<\/span>ACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014\u00a0We haven\u2019t heard much lately from Michael Bloomberg, the one-time New York City mayor, founder of the Bloomberg News organization, and head of his own philanthropy. His disappearance from the limelight probably is a relief given that, during his 12 years in the mayor\u2019s office, he gained a much-deserved reputation as the Big Apple\u2019s nanny-in-chief. I\u2019m not defending many of his unhealthy targets, but his willingness to use the government to try to improve our own personal eating and drinking habits was, however well-intentioned, inappropriately prohibitionist.<\/p>\n

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Among his public health crusades, Bloomberg banned the sale of large-sized sugary drinks, although that was overturned by the courts. He banned restaurants from cooking with trans fats and ordered them to post calories on their menus. He launched a campaign to lower sodium, imposed stricter regulations on tanning salons, and, of course, imposed a host of restrictive anti-tobacco laws \u2014 including a widespread ban on smoking in public places. Even NPR concluded\u00a0that his multiple campaigns had \u201cmixed results.\u201d<\/p>\n

But last week, Bloomberg reemerged with a column\u00a0in\u00a0Bloomberg News<\/em>\u00a0regarding the Trump administration\u2019s new policy on vaping that is filled with misinformation. It\u2019s totally on brand, but much of it \u2014 starting with the headline \u2014 is buncombe. If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration follows the former mayor\u2019s advice, it will undermine legitimate efforts to dissuade people from smoking. But let\u2019s start with that headline: \u201cThe FDA\u2019s About-Face on Flavored Vapes Will Prove Deadly for Kids.\u201d It\u2019s an inaccurate summary of an exceedingly modest regulatory change.<\/p>\n

The administration has issued new\u00a0draft guidance\u00a0for companies that apply for premarket FDA approval to market flavored Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), or vaping products. It\u2019s far from an about-face. As I\u00a0reported last month for The<\/em> American Spectator<\/em>, \u201cIt would continue to oppose the sale of fruity, sweet, and candy flavors that appeal to young people while possibly allowing the sale of mint, spice, and coffee flavors that appeal to adults. Manufacturers would still face a long, costly and bureaucratic federal process to get approval, without any guarantee adult consumers would choose spice or coffee flavors over illicit ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

The core issue: Vaping is far less deadly than smoking combustible cigarettes \u2014\u00a095 percent less risky, per Great Britain\u2019s main public health agency, Public Health England. The bureaucratic FDA has not approved many vape products as tobacco cessation devices, but research shows that smokers successfully switch to them. They also switch to flavored pouches that use pharmaceutical-grade nicotine similar to that used in FDA-approved products such as nicotine gum. Nicotine is addictive, but not dangerous. These lower-risk nicotine products save lives.<\/p>\n

However, public health advocates fear that fruity flavors entice teens to try vaping, thus starting them on a life of nicotine addiction. For those of us who promote tobacco harm reduction, this argument is a bit frustrating. We, of course, want to keep teens from using any form of tobacco or nicotine product, but all of these products are legally off-limits to people who are under age 21. The idea of banning flavors in products for adults to stop them from appealing to non-adults seems less sensible than simply enforcing the current purchase age laws. The FDA tries to address these competing concerns by making distinctions between fruity flavors that might appeal to kids, while potentially allowing the sale of products with flavors (coffee, spice) that adults generally choose.<\/p>\n

Whatever one thinks of the draft guidance \u2014 and I think it does very little to speed up the approval of potentially life-saving products, and ignores the broader evidence about the adult appeal of flavors \u2014 it certainly does not \u201cthreaten to undermine 25 years of progress on smoking, much of it spurred by actions our administration took in New York City,\u201d as Bloomberg\u00a0argued.\u00a0This line struck me as worthy of further mention: \u201cIt\u2019s true that there is some evidence e-cigarettes can help smokers quit, but it\u2019s not sweet and fruity flavors that smokers crave.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m glad that Bloomberg admits e-cigarettes can help smokers quit, but the evidence suggests that those fruity and sweet flavors are one reason why. Currently, in California and other locales with a flavor ban, only tobacco-flavored vapes are legally available. Per\u00a0testimony\u00a0to the FDA from my R Street Institute colleague, Dr. Jeffrey Smith, \u201cAdult vapers who initially choose tobacco flavor frequently migrate toward sweet and fruit flavors as they become more experienced. This migration pattern suggests that non-tobacco flavors serve an important role in sustaining long-term use of the reduced-risk product and preventing relapse to combustible cigarettes.\u201d<\/p>\n

It might be hard for a professional nanny to understand, but people have different tastes and motivations. The goal should be to allow a wide range of products that help smokers minimize the risk of their nicotine addiction. Yet Bloomberg goes for the most\u00a0incendiary rhetoric\u00a0possible: \u201cParents have long warned their children against accepting candy from strangers, to keep them safe from predators. Tobacco companies offering flavored vapes is the new version of that old lesson \u2014 and disgracefully, government is getting in bed with the predators.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shockingly, the\u00a0majority of vapes sold in the United States are illegally imported, mostly from China, based on the agency\u2019s own data. But the FDA \u2014 and Bloomberg \u2014 ignore the reason for the flourishing black market: The FDA\u2019s failure to approve, in a timely manner, a wide range of ENDS and other lower-risk tobacco and nicotine products. By the way, the stricter the vaping bans, the more likely it is for adults and teens to turn back toward combustible cigarettes.<\/p>\n

In reality, the administration isn\u2019t \u201callowing unregulated products full of toxins to poison children.\u201d It has merely proposed loosening one step in a long administrative approval process that could eventually allow adults to access the flavored products they prefer. In their zeal to improve public health,\u00a0nannies\u00a0like to make over-the-top allegations that, upon close examination, often undermine the goals they claim to seek. Improving public health is a worthy goal, which is why the administration should ignore Bloomberg\u2019s latest hectoring.<\/p>\n

Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute. Write to him at\u00a0[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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