China is still flooding America with poison, and President Trump must finish the job

Washington talks a lot about protecting the public health of Americans, but what it rarely does is enforce the law. The previous administration illustrated that in action. While American parents worried about what their kids were buying at corner stores, President Joe Biden let dangerous illegal Chinese vaping products flood the country at historic levels.

Under Biden, the government replaced enforcement with warnings, with regulators issuing letters and shuffling paperwork instead of taking action. We’ve paid the price. Today, roughly 86 percent of e-cigarette sales in the United States are illegal, unregulated products, overwhelmingly manufactured in China with dubious quality and safety controls. The weak borders and hollow enforcement under the previous administration turned American neighborhoods into dumping grounds for products that never should have made it into the country.

China knows these products are dangerous. That is why they are banned there. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy spelled it out clearly. You will go to jail and worse in China if you try to sell these products to Chinese citizens. The same factories that cannot legally sell to their own people mass-produce flavored nicotine devices and ship them to American communities instead.

They are not shipping these products to help adults quit smoking. They are engineering candy-flavored devices designed to hook children, pushing them into neighborhoods, schools, and even near military bases. This is not negligence. It is exploitation.

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