They--the mostly democrat swamps things and swamp hopefuls-- through local municipality bans, the FDA, etc., created a black market with vape products that included oils in liquids that caused deaths and lung injuries. The Chinese jumped right in on this with both feet, by the way.

They then tried to pin this blame on the legit vape industry! All that a sensible person had to do was look at Europe where there was not one death or injury to see what a crock of shit that was.

But it didn't matter to them. They created the panic in the public's mind, wrapped it in the usual 'for the childrun' bullshit, and dealt economic blows to small businesses.