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This is a dark money play. Vaping industry helps bankroll a number of conservative groups that are painting this as regulatory overreach. If this seems familiar it is because this is the tobacco industry. It help invent this kind of subterfuge
amp.axios.com/gop-allies-war…
The Guardian has a handy chart detailing YEARS worth of big $$$ conservative "free market" groups like Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform have taken from big tobacco. I've been told this by vaping industry players too. Still "Smoke and mirrors." theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…)
I wrote about this too, back in 2016. nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/…
And yes, here are the documents. documentcloud.org/documents/3032…
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