The Trump administration says it is taking conscious action to block the flow of unregulated Chinese vapes into the country, something Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary described as a direct “attack” on the nation’s youth.

Youth vaping rates exploded after electronic nicotine delivery systems, or ENDS, hit the market in the early 2000s, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention charting a roughly 2,000% increase in the number of teenage vapers from 2011 to 2019. And while youth usage rates have slowly decreased over the past five years, CDC data show that, in 2024, more than 1.63 million middle school and high school students reported using e-cigarettes daily.