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MYTH OVER METRICS | FDA Commissioner Rejects CDC Data on Teen Vaping | RegWatch
“Shoddy” and “flawed.” That’s how Trump’s FDA Commissioner, Marty Makary, describes the National Youth Tobacco Survey, the CDC’s flagship youth surveillance system and the very dataset the FDA has relied on for more than a decade to justify vaping crackdowns, public panic, and sweeping prohibitionist policy.
The problem? The NYTS no longer shows an epidemic of teen vaping. It shows a collapse. Teen vaping has fallen by more than 60 percent since 2019. And instead of grappling with that reality, the FDA Commissioner has chosen to discard the data entirely, replacing it with anecdote, rumor…
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