A Wall Street Journal exclusive has raised serious questions about whether the White House and FDA are truly aligned on flavored vape approvals.
The White House is reportedly pushing to allow more flavored vaping products on the market, yet FDA Commissioner Marty Makary blocked the move, preventing the authorization of menthol, mango, and blueberry flavored products from Los Angeles-based vape maker Glas. All this despite the FDA’s own tobacco scientists at the Center for Tobacco Products recommending authorization.
The conflict is hardly surprising. As we’ve reported here on RegWatch, Makary has used derisive language about nicotine vaping, repeating many recycled anti-vaping myths.
Today on RegWatch, Tony Abboud of the Vapor Technology Association breaks down the controversy, the broken PMTA process, and why vague FDA guidance continues to shut American companies out of the legal market.
Is the FDA chief a renegade regulator?
Find out. Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com
Released: April 26, 2026
Produced by: Brent Stafford
CELEBRATE WITH US | RegWatch 10th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/regwatch-10th-anniversary-fundraiser
Want More Investigative Content?
“Proving that flavored vaping helps ADULT SMOKERS STAY QUIT from smoking.” I am certainly not a so called scientist. but adult smokers that have smoked domestic cigarettes for years. About the time when health issues begin to alert the smoker resulting in a desparate desire to quit smoking. When they find vaping flavors, it is even more amazing (NOT REALLY) that by ceasing smoking tobacco cigarettes, the body of the user begins to change…. how? TASTE BUDS return, one of our natural and important 5 senses, that convinces most smokers that the life of smoking, doesn’t have to taste like rag weed, and holes in upholstery from hot ash, the stink the ashtrays, the mess of smoking . I have proudly been vaping flavored e-liquid since 2010. I have not returned to smoking, I took a few puffs over the years. GAG, DISGUSTING TASTE, and the irritation my lungs feel, it isn’t ever worth it to me, to ever smoke again. To offset vaping, I use Big Tobacco’s nicotine pouches (flavored), where I cannot vape or when I need to take a vape break. Even big tobacco is creating a market to help smokers reduce or quit smoking.