RFK Jr.'s MAHA report on children's health leaves something out: nicotine [View all]

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September 14, 20258:53 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday
Yuki Noguchi


Frances Daniels, a Baltimore mother of three, read the Trump administration's 20-page report called "Make Our Children Healthy Again," and noticed some notable words were missing from it: "Smoking" and "nicotine."

The word "tobacco" is mentioned once in the document, in a reference to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

"I was horrified," Daniels says. "It never once mentioned substance usage. Specifically: nicotine."

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented a strategy report of the Make America Healthy Again Commission intended to tackle childhood chronic disease.

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That was of grave concern to Daniels, because nicotine and the chemicals vaped with it, hooked and nearly killed one of her children three years ago. Her child spent six brutal weeks in the hospital with EVALI, a lung injury caused by e-cigarette use. "They had about six tubes in their lungs at one point, draining fluid out — three on each side with machines on either side of the bed."

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