This summer, the explosion of vaping-related illnesses sent medical researchers on an urgent quest to figure out why teenagers were showing up at the hospital unable to breathe. Years before this became a public health crisis, federal regulators had the power to crack down on e-cigarettes. Why didn’t they do it?
Guest: Desmond Jenson, an attorney with the Public Health Law Center at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
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