A tobacco giant pumped $5 million into Donald Trump’s biggest super PAC just days before his administration cracked open the U.S. market to flavored vapes.
The cash from Reynolds American, which makes Camel cigarettes and Vuse vapes, was funneled through a subsidiary on April 30 and surfaced in a campaign finance report filed Wednesday night, The New York Times reported. The donation pushed the subsidiary’s total given to MAGA Inc.—the PAC backing Trump, 79—up to $8 million.
The decision came within about a week. The Food and Drug Administration issued fresh guidance clearing the big tobacco firms to start selling flavored vapes and seize a share of the $6 billion market now dominated by illegal Chinese imports. The agency skipped its usual rule-making procedure to push it through.
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