Evidence for "Looser" Oversight
- Simplifying scientific study requirements = lower bar
- Reversal of first-term flavor ban policy
- Makary pushed out for resisting flavor approvals
- May guidance: sell before full review completes
- More flavored products reaching market
- Zeller warns of "lowering the evidentiary bar"
- Public health groups suing over process
Evidence for "Stricter, Smarter" Oversight
- More products in regulatory system = more oversight
- Enforcement against illegal products ramping up
- Congress mandated 6-month reviews — FDA was non-compliant
- Legal market squeezes out unregulated grey market
- Age-verification tech becoming standard
- HHS cites "counterfeit vapes off streets" as priority
- State flavor bans still expanding
