The Great Vape Debate continues

Here are the latest developments in The Great Vape Debate.

The CDC’s EVALI Screwup looks at the misnaming of a lung disease that was caused, not by legal e-cigarettes, but by illicit THC products. The CDC erred in calling the disease EVALI, which stands for “E-cigarette or Vaping use-Associated Lung Injury,” and it has refused to correct the error. This is awful because it will discourage smokers from quitting and turning to e-cigs for the nicotine hits they want or need.

Meantime, Bloomberg Philanthropies continues to financing anti-vaping campaigns—and refuses to even talk with its critics. My story for Medium, headlined Michael Bloomberg Loves Data. Except When He Doesn’t, reports for the first time that some of the nation’s leading anti-smoking experts have been trying to meet with Bloomberg since last spring. They’ve run into a wall. One more bit of evidence (not that we need it) that foundations are accountable to no one.