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On the recordSeptember 24, 2019
So how did we get to the point where we are backtracking on this rather than actually putting in place the right consumer protections from the front end if you are telling me that vitamin E shouldn't be an inhalant and is coating people's lungs to the extent that children's lungs look like the lungs of an 80-year-old? Where was the regulatory failure to allow that to happen in the first place?
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Joseph P. Kennedy III
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Kennedy questions regulatory failures regarding vaping products and their health impacts.

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