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Mark Makela/ReutersActress Cheryl Hines has broken her silence on her husband, former longshot presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., amid his cheating scandal as they mourn the death of his mother, the human rights advocate Ethel Kennedy.On Thursday, soon after news of the elder Kennedy’s death broke, Hines remembered her mother-in-law, the widow of assassinated attorney general and presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, in a heartfelt Instagram post.“It has been my great honor to have shared laughter and love with Ethel,” she wrote. “Her charisma, wisdom and strength will live on with me in every memory of her. Bobby and I spent many warm nights in Hyannis Port having dinner with her and hearing stories from her extraordinary life. She always made me laugh. She was never too serious except when she needed to be. She dressed to nines with bare feet. She will be missed.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

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MANDEL NGANDonald Trump has announced that his daughter Tiffany Trump is expecting her first child. The GOP presidential nominee made the announcement Thursday during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan. He was talking about Tiffany’s father-in-law, businessman Massad Boulos, when he made the comment, according to the New York Post.“He happens to be the father of Tiffany’s husband, Michael, who’s a very exceptional young guy,” Trump said. “And she’s an exceptional young woman. And she’s going to have a baby. So that’s nice.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

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Disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ two daughters were seen showing up to a Manhattan court Thursday, as a judge set his sex-trafficking trial date for next May. Twins Jessie James and D’Lila Star held hands as they walked into the lower Manhattan courthouse just before the 2p.m. hearing began. The Bad Boy Records founder...

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Reuters/NetflixThe president of France has declared that he will “fight hard” to keep Netflix’s hit Emily in Paris from leaving the capital city.President Emmanuel Macron’s comments, published Wednesday in a Variety cover story, come after some of the show’s fans were left puzzled by main character Emily, played by Lily Collins, announcing plans to relocate to Rome at the end of the show’s fourth season .According to Macron, Rome “doesn’t make sense” to him either. “We will ask them to remain in Paris,” he told Variety.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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These days, you can easily find vapes in flavors that include “Lush Ice,” “Blueberry Banana,” “Mango Lychee,” “Hot Fudge,” and “Fcuking Fab” (whatever that is). No matter which one you choose, it’s almost certainly illegal. The tiny battery-powered devices that produce a mist of nicotine when you inhale, first popularized by Juul, are not outright banned—at least not for adults—but only a few flavored vapes have gotten the FDA authorization required before they hit the market. That hasn’t stopped hundreds of shadowy companies, many based abroad, from effectively hawking contraband. Vapes are sold to Americans online for as little as $5, and are well-stocked in convenience stores, smoke shops, and even vending machines.With such little oversight, it’s no wonder that about 1.6 million American kids are regularly vaping, leading to panic that they are getting duped into a lifetime of nicotine addiction. The FDA has levied fines, filed lawsuits, and even seized products to keep vapes off of shelves, and the agency has pledged a major escalation in its efforts. Politicians across the political spectrum, including Senators Mitt Romney and Chuck Schumer, have advocated for a vaping crackdown. But not Donald Trump.In 2020, Trump abruptly abandoned a plan to ban flavored vapes, much to the chagrin of public-health officials. Late last month, Trump posted on Truth Social that, if elected, he would “save Vaping again!” The former president may be a deeply flawed messenger, and the vaping industry hardly deserves any sympathy. Many of these companies flagrantly violate the law and overtly market to kids. Even so, Trump has a point. Vapes—as a replacement for cigarettes, anyway—are actually worth saving.Trump said in that Truth Social post that vapes have “greatly helped people get off smoking.” It’s easy to dismiss that as spin. After all, he had received a personal visit from the head of the vaping industry’s lobbying group that same day. However, vapes are indeed a revelation for the 28 million adults in the United States who smoke cigarettes. They work as well, or even better, than all of the conventional products designed to help wean people off of cigarettes.Gum, lozenges, and patches simply deliver nicotine, the addictive chemical that keeps smokers smoking, in a safer way. These so-called nicotine-replacement therapies don’t contain any of the harmful ingredients in tobacco products such as cigarettes. Whenever you might feel an itch to smoke, you can instead use one of these replacements to satiate your craving.But nicotine-replacement therapies don’t work well. Less than 20 percent of people who try to quit smoking using these therapies in clinical trials are actually successful; one study found they aren’t any better than attempting to quit cold turkey. That’s because, for smokers, nicotine gums and lozenges never deliver anything close to the euphoric feelings of puffing on a cigarette. Your average cigarette is just tobacco leaves wrapped in paper with a filter on the end, but it is exquisitely efficient at delivering nicotine to the body. When burned, tobacco creates nicotine particles that hit receptors in the brain within 10 to 20 seconds. Nicotine-replacement therapies deliver nicotine much more slowly—from minutes to several hours—because the drug is absorbed by the mouth or through the skin.But you know what can get close to the experience of smoking? Vapes. They generate an aerosol that can reach deep into the lungs, allowing nicotine to hit the bloodstream at a speed that is “almost identical” to cigarettes, Maciej Goniewicz, an expert on nicotine pharmacology at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, told me. Part of what makes vapes so effective is that they look and work like cigarettes. “People who are addicted to smoking are not just physiologically addicted to the nicotine; they’re also behaviorally addicted to the process of smoking,” Ken Warner, an emeritus professor of public health at the University of Michigan, told me.Vapes even hold their own against the one conventional treatment that’s more effective than the traditional gums and patches: a prescription drug called Chantix. Instead of replacing the nicotine in cigarettes, it blocks the pleasurable effects of nicotine on the brain. According to a recent clinical trial, roughly 40 percent of some 400 people given a vape or Chantix successfully quit smoking after six months. Vaping may be an easier transition for smokers: Chantix isn’t widely used, in large part because of its side effects, which include nausea and vivid dreams. It certainly doesn’t hurt that huffing on a “Fcuking Fab”–flavored gadget can also just be fun. That vapes come in so many flavors is often the reason people start vaping in the first place. It’s not that different from alcohol: Many drinkers would prefer a vodka cranberry over a shot of Tito’s.Just like how it’s not just heavy drinkers who enjoy a vodka cranberry, the same is true of flavored vapes. The attractiveness of flavors is also why kids gravitate toward them, as do adults who have never smoked. Because kids overwhelmingly use flavors, banning them seems like an easy way to reduce vape use. But if public health is about managing trade-offs, the benefits of vapes seem to outweigh the negatives. Although no kids should be vaping, abusing these products is not deadly like cigarettes are. Amid rising public awareness about the dangers of youth vaping, even FDA’s top tobacco official has acknowledged publicly that youth vaping is no longer the epidemic it was a few years ago.But there are other caveats to consider when it comes to the anti-smoking potential of vapes. They are regulated as consumer products and not medicines, so they have not gone through the same rigorous approval process that every other anti-smoking drug has gone through. We still don’t know alot about how effective vapes might be to help people quit smoking, or how often smokers need to use them to successfully quit. Because vapes are still relatively new, no one can say definitively that they do not carry some long-term risks we do not know yet. The current Wild West of vapes also adds to the potential pitfalls. Vapes also contain known carcinogens, likely because of the chemicals in e-liquids being heated to high temperatures. Some likely carry higher risks than others because of how little standardization there is in the chemicals used.All of these risks have made public-health groups understandably reluctant to embrace their use. The FDA acknowledges that vapes are safer than cigarettes, though they do not endorse them as an anti-smoking treatment. Should the agency get its way, the majority of flavored vapes will eventually be off of store shelves. The head of the FDA’s tobacco center has said that “nothing is off the table.”No matter who wins in November, some of the FDA’s decisions are likely out of the next president’s control: The agency’s decisions on which vapes to green-light doesn’t rest with the commander in chief or the FDA commissioner; rather, they are governed by FDA scientists who are following a legal standard. Still, having a president who embraces vaping could go a long way. Surveys show that a sizable proportion of smokers mistakenly think vapes are more dangerous than cigarettes. That likely keeps many smokers from trying them.Kamala Harris has not weighed in on vaping since becoming the Democratic nominee. (Her campaign declined to comment on her position. And any single-issue vaping voters out there might do well to reconsider their priorities before voting for Trump.) His stance isn’t exactly academically rigorous, nor is it adequately nuanced. But if Trump acknowledges the benefits of vaping while also condemning the lawlessness of much of the current vaping industry, he could help legitimize a product that has been shunned by most of the medical establishment. For now, few reputable companies are willing to invest in making their own vapes, and few doctors are going to recommend them to patients.This all might sound like public-health sacrilege. But given that the overwhelming majority of smokers who try to quit each year fail, “anything that we can add to the tool kit as a way that could help people transition away from smoking is something that is worth exploring,” Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who has studied anti-smoking drugs, told me. You might cringe at the thought of anyone putting something called “Fcuking Fab” into their lungs, but consider that cigarettes still kill nearly 500,000 Americans each year. Vapes are deeply flawed. Unfortunately, so are the alternatives.

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersKamala Harris is bringing in the biggest of big guns—her old friend, Barack Obama—as she battles for victory with just three weeks until Election Day.The former president is set to rally for Harris Thursday evening at the University of Pittsburgh in the nation’s largest swing state, which could decide the winner of the 2024 presidential race. Other “special guests” are also expected to attend, the campaign says.A spokesperson for Obama told the Daily Beast that he will be focused on the high stakes of the election and on reelecting the state’s Democratic senator, Bob Casey, for whom he put out an ad on Thursday. Obama’s team will announce more campaign stops he'll make for Harris in the coming days.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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A teen boy clinging to a piece of fence in a completely flooded zone of Florida was dramatically rescued by Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department officers following Hurricane Milton‘s fury. “We’ll come to you, be careful,” the officer says as his boat approaches the stranded 14 year old. The water was so high that half of...

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Christopher Polk/GettySaoirse Ronan is revealing her true feelings about Ryan Gosling’s firing from her 2009 thriller The Lovely Bones.Gosling was originally cast to play her dad in the film, but was let go the day filming was to start and replaced by Mark Wahlberg. While the cameras hadn’t started rolling, the Ladybird actress says the cast had “done some prep.”Ronan made the revelation on a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast hosted by Josh Horowitz.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Jane Rosenberg/ReutersDisgraced superstar rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs, 54, appeared in court Thursday in his sex-trafficking and racketeering case with his children and elderly mother on hand to support him.Diddy has spent the last three weeks in a Brooklyn jail, but appeared in Manhattan court Thursday afternoon before district judge Arun Subramanian,.Diddy’s legal team is hoping for the trial to begin in April or May, but an official date has yet to be set.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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