New evidence provides the clearest signal yet that the Food and Drug Administration is opposed categorically to authorizing non-tobacco flavored vapes—something indicated by reams of rejections under its premarket tobacco product applications (PMTA) process, but never explicitly stated.

Two memos reviewed by Filter indicate that the office of Brian King, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), intervened to push back against the CTP Office of Science’s recommendation to authorize menthol vaping products for the first time. [...]