"It never once mentioned substance usage. Specifically: nicotine."
"They had about six tubes in their lungs at one point, draining fluid out three on each side with machines on either side of the bed."
""mobilizing every part of government to confront the childhood chronic disease epidemic.""
"The fact there is not a greater emphasis put on tobacco and nicotine, which is harming youth it's very, very surprising."
An administration children's-health strategy omits the words "smoking" and "nicotine" while mentioning tobacco only once. A Baltimore mother reports that nicotine and vaped chemicals nearly killed her child, who spent six brutal weeks hospitalized with EVALI and required multiple lung drainage tubes and machines. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. describes the effort as mobilizing government to confront childhood chronic disease. Recommendations include public-service campaigns on alcohol, controlled substances, and vaping, continued crackdowns on illegally imported vapes, and a recent $86 million e-cigarette seizure. Critics say the plan downplays tobacco and nicotine despite youth harm and prior presidential anti-vaping emphasis.
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