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The FDA has approved the sale of fruit-flavored vapes. What's behind the shift?

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Mitch Zeller, former director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products, about the agency's approval of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes.

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