An important letter from Dr. @mikepesko to the acting @CDCDirector requests a science-based, and long overdue, renaming of "EVALI" (E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury) because it wrongly associates illnesses and deaths that occurred in 2019-20 with nicotine vaping products: docs.google.com/document/d/1… The actual cause had nothing to do with nicotine and was quickly found to be vitamin E acetate in illicit, adulterated THC vaping products. But "EVALI" was never changed. This seriously skewed risk perceptions of e-cigarettes compared to cigarettes, as we detailed in a peer-reviewed editorial detailing how the persistent use of the term "EVALI" constitutes public health misinformation that has reduced the use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, costing lives: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Dr. Pesko's letter follows up on a 2021 petition to the CDC co-signed by 75 experts requesting that the agency reconsider the name. The Biden administration took no action - a major lost opportunity. This renewed effort offers the Trump administration a clear and simple opportunity to right this wrong.