host: jennifer malone is joining us from the wall street jonal. this is from aaron in michigan. caller: i'm wondering why the fda is such a vendettas against juul but they don't go after flavored disposables which are taken over the market. and y are disposables allowed? guest: that's a good question. this goes back to 2020 when under the trump administration, the fda grappled with vaping. they looked at these fruity flavors that were dealing kids. they were working on crafting a policy that would take the most appealing products for kids off the market temporarily until the fda completed its review of every product. there was some back-and-forth with the trump administration about how to pass this policy initially they thought they would take all the flavors off the market and all device types but there was concern about how this would affect small businesses and fake shops and it was an argument that the vapes shop catered more to adults. it was about to e-cigarettes that had cartridges you could attach and at the time they were popular. the fda made a targeted policy that wou

host: jennifer malone is joining us from the wall street journal. this is from aaron in michigan.ler: i'm wondering why the fda is such a vendettas against juul but they don't go after flavored disposables which are taken over the market. and why are disposables allowed? guest: that's a good question. this goes back to 2020 when under the trump administration, the fda grappled with vaping. they looked at these fruity flavors that were dealing kids. they were working on crafting a policy that would take the most appealing products for kids off the market temporarily until the fda completed its review of every product. there was some back-and-forth with the trump administration about how to pass this policy initially they thought they would take all the flavors off the market and all device types but there was concern about how this would affect small businesses and fake shops and it was an argument that the vapes shop catered more to adults. it was about to e-cigarettes that had cartridges you could attach and at the time they were popular. the fda made a targeted policy that would