Vaping’s Legal Battle With FDA to Shift Under ‘Friendlier’ Trump

The vaping industry is counting on President-elect Donald Trump to significantly overhaul how the FDA regulates flavored e-cigarettes, an agency action that came under the scrutiny of US Supreme Court justices this week.

The Trump administration is in line to take up the Food and Drug Administration’s powerful authority to regulate electronic nicotine products, overseeing an authorization process that vaping manufacturers must go through before their product can be legally marketed in the US.

The process has drawn industry resistance over the necessary and sufficient scientific evidence required to prove the products would promote public health. The dispute eventually landed ...