On March 5, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced he is resigning at the end of the month. Despite the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, Gottlieb’s FDA has been a stark exception, repeatedly increasing the regulatory scrutiny for new e-vapor products and threatening to take existing products off the market in response to an increase in underage vaping.

Unfortunately, any sigh of relief the vaping industry breathed at Gottlieb’s resignation announcement was momentary. During his final weeks in office, Gottlieb has only amped up the FDA’s war on vaping, publishing new regulations for pod-based e-cigarettes and doubling down on the administration’s threat to take the whole category of products off the market.