FDA's top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency's leadership

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https://apnews.com/article/fda-tobacco-rfk-brian-king-cf2d5657e5d55410073aece19592be09

FDA’s top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership
By MATTHEW PERRONE
Updated 8:26 AM CDT, April 1, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as sweeping cuts hit the agency and staffers across the federal health workforce Tuesday.

Dozens of staffers in FDA’s tobacco center also received notices of dismissal Tuesday morning, including the entire office responsible for drafting new tobacco regulations. Elsewhere at the FDA, the agency’s entire press office of more than a dozen communication staffers and managers was also given notice.

King, who joined the agency in 2022, has been vigorously criticized by vaping lobbyists for ordering thousands of companies to remove their fruit and candy-flavored e-cigarettes from the market. During his time at FDA, teen vaping has fallen to a 10-year low.

His removal comes just days after FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks was forced out, citing health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s support for vaccine “misinformation and lies” in his resignation letter.

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RFK Jr: Whatever saves lives is BAD.

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1. Does Trump give RFKjr a bonus for every American he kills?