Tech Policy Podcast

392: Vaping Heads to SCOTUS

Episode Summary

Jonathan Adler (Case Western Law) and Ari Cohn (FIRE) discuss the FDA’s war on vaping and the Supreme Court case FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments. Topics include: - The (comparative) health case for vaping - Yet another moral panic - Kids take risks! - The bungling FDA - A disappointing oral argument - Fine points of administrative law - Will the Trump admin switch course? Links: En Banc Fifth Circuit Rejects FDA's Vaping Regulation "Surprise Switcheroo" (https://tinyurl.com/ms6rckk5) Baptists, Bootleggers & Electronic Cigarettes (https://tinyurl.com/4ds598w2) Uneducating Americans on Vaping (https://tinyurl.com/ytzpdcy5) The Food & Drug Administration Has a Vaping Problem (https://tinyurl.com/ms3ac5d5) More Evidence that Bans on Flavored Vaping Products May Increase Teen Smoking (https://tinyurl.com/bdhmzmz9) Speech Regulation and Tobacco Harm Reduction (https://tinyurl.com/25pcp83s)

Episode Notes

Jonathan Adler (Case Western Law) and Ari Cohn (FIRE) discuss the FDA’s war on vaping and the Supreme Court case FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments.

Topics include:

Links:

En Banc Fifth Circuit Rejects FDA's Vaping Regulation "Surprise Switcheroo"

Baptists, Bootleggers & Electronic Cigarettes

Uneducating Americans on Vaping

The Food & Drug Administration Has a Vaping Problem

More Evidence that Bans on Flavored Vaping Products May Increase Teen Smoking

Speech Regulation and Tobacco Harm Reduction