唐纳德·特朗普总统预计将于周五主持一个与乏味的行业高管和公共卫生官员的会议，同时他将禁止数月前首次宣布的调味电子烟。
周三，白宫发言人表示，该政策被推迟，但没有被放弃。与此同时，特朗普继续权衡这一影响了500多万美国年轻人的无所事事的流行病的“方方面面”。
近2300名电子烟使用者报告了肺部损伤，医生称类似于化学烧伤，47人死亡得到证实。联邦卫生官员第一次意识到这种流行病是在2018年夏天，当时高中生和中学生之间的蒸发现象激增。
这是政府在过去一年里遏制青少年电子香烟使用的曲折政策努力的时间表。
唐纳德·特朗普总统在11月19日的内阁会议上对媒体发表讲话。
2018年11月15日:2018年全国青年烟草调查有助于激励卫生官员采取行动。这结果根据美国食品和药物管理局和疾病控制和预防中心的数据，这表明年轻人吸烟率“急剧”上升了20%以上，并促使烟草产品使用量全面上升。
当时，美国卫生和公众服务部部长亚历克斯·阿拉扎尔(HHS)和当时的美国食品和药物管理局局长斯科特·戈特利布说，汽化的可用性不会以整整一代儿童对尼古丁上瘾为代价。他们宣布了几个步骤，过去和现在，来控制年轻人的蒸发。
2019年8月1日:疾病预防控制中心发起了一项多州调查，报告了第一批与汽化相关的疾病，导致至少两人死亡。此后不久，它警告人们不要总的来说变得索然无味，也不要使用从街头小贩那里购买的电子烟产品。
2019年9月11日:阿扎尔宣布特朗普政府将禁止调味电子烟，包括薄荷和薄荷醇，以减缓年轻人的挥发。当时，他说美国食品和药物管理局将在30天内准备好禁令规则。(尚未发布此类规则。)
2019年9月19日:在宣布最初的禁令后仅仅一周，特朗普突然取消了与保守派议员的会议，他们担心政府行动过快，无法监管为摇摆州的许多选民提供工作的受欢迎产品据报告的。
2019年11月6日:美国食品和药物管理局和疾病预防控制中心放一年一度的全国青年烟草调查显示，尽管HHS采取了预防措施，但2019年仍有500万儿童使用电子烟，高于前一年的360万。
据彭博社报道，同一天，特朗普的顾问凯莱恩·康威表示，白宫无权监管乏味的商店，这是政府撤销最初禁令的首批公开迹象之一。与此同时，她表示新规则将“很快”发布(他们没有。)
2019年11月17日以下内容:这 华盛顿邮报第一据报告的特朗普在禁令计划于11月5日宣布前几小时取消了禁令，担心会遭到反击。
2019年11月20日:特朗普选择领导美国食品和药物管理局是轰炸在参议院的听证会上，他提出了一些关于年轻人变得索然无味的问题。共和党和民主党议员想知道斯蒂芬·哈恩是否会在特朗普同意的情况下推进禁令。他在很大程度上回避了这些问题，承诺在食品和药物管理局的决策中采取以病人为中心的方法。
同样在周三，美国有线电视新闻网首先据报告的白宫将与乏味的行业高管和公共卫生倡导者举行闭门会议。有报道称，特朗普受到乏味的企业的影响，因为对就业的影响而未能贯彻口味禁令。
白宫发言人贾德迪尔在一份声明中表示:“决策过程没有停滞——它将继续向前推进。”。
2019年11月21日:疾病预防控制中心报告了近2300例与蒸发相关的疾病和47例死亡，几乎是前几周报告的两倍。研究人员发现了病例与大麻中的活性成分四氢大麻酚的使用之间的联系，以及维生素E的存在，维生素E是一些含四氢大麻酚产品中的添加剂。
A TIMELINE OF TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ACTIONS ON VAPING AS FLAVORS BAN STALLS
President Donald Trump is expected to host a meeting with vaping industry executives and public health officials Friday while he sits on a ban of flavored e-cigarettes that was first announced months earlier.
On Wednesday, a White House spokesperson said the policy was delayed but has not been abandoned. In the meantime, Trump continues to weigh "all sides" of the vaping epidemic, which has affected more than 5 million U.S. youths.
Nearly 2,300 e-cigarette users have reported lung injuries that physicians say resemble chemical burns, and 47 deaths have been confirmed. Federal health officials first became aware of the epidemic in the summer of 2018, when vaping was spiking among high school and middle school students.
Here's a timeline on the administration's meandering policy efforts to curb youth e-cigarette use in the past year.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a Cabinet meeting on November 19.
November 15, 2018: The 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey helped spur health officials into action. The results indicated a "dramatic" surge in youth vaping, by more than 20 percent, and prompted an overall rise in tobacco product usage, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
At the time, Alex Alazar, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Scott Gottlieb, then-commissioner of the FDA, said vaping availability would not come at the expense of an entire generation of kids becoming addicted to nicotine. They announced several steps, past and present, to get youth vaping under control.
August 1, 2019: The CDC launched a multistate investigation as the first vaping-related illnesses were reported, with at least two deaths resulting. Soon thereafter, it warned people not to vape in general or to use e-cigarette products purchased from street vendors.
September 11, 2019: Azar announced that the Trump administration would ban flavored e-cigarettes, including mint and menthol, in an effort to slow youth vaping. At the time, he said the FDA would ready its rules for the ban within 30 days. (No such rules have been released.)
September 19, 2019: Just a week after announcing the initial ban idea, Trump abruptly canceled meetings with conservative lawmakers concerned that the administration was moving too quickly to regulate a popular product that provided jobs for many voters in swing states, Bloomberg News first reported.
November 6, 2019: The FDA and CDC released the annual National Youth Tobacco Survey, which revealed that 5 million children used e-cigarettes in 2019, up from 3.6 million the year before despite HHS prevention efforts.
That same day, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said the White House doesn't have the authority to regulate vape shops, in one of the first public indications that the administration was walking back its initial ban, according to Bloomberg. At the same time, she indicated the new rules would be released "soon." (They were not.)
November 17, 2019: The Washington Post first reported that Trump canceled the ban just hours before it was scheduled to be announced on November 5, fearing blowback.
November 20, 2019: Trump's pick to head the FDA was bombarded with questions related to youth vaping during his confirmation hearing before the Senate. Republican and Democratic lawmakers wanted to know whether Stephen Hahn would push forward with the ban with or without Trump's approval. He largely dodged those questions, promising a patient-centered approach to FDA decisions on the matter.
Also on Wednesday, CNN first reported that the White House would host a closed-door meeting with vaping industry executives and public health advocates, amid reports that Trump was swayed by vaping businesses to not follow through with the flavors ban because of the impact on jobs.
"The policymaking process is not stalled—it continues to move forward," White House spokesperson Judd Deere said in a statement.
November 21, 2019: The CDC reported nearly 2,300 vaping-related illnesses and 47 deaths, almost doubling from previous weeks' reports. Researchers identified a link between the cases and use of THC, the active component in cannabis, as well as the presence of vitamin E, an additive in some THC-containing products.
