“they made their choices and can live, or die, with the consequences.
“It isn’t the nation’s responsibility to make sure people’s lives don’t suck. Even dire circumstances aren’t delegations of power to permit the federal to do anything about them.
“That’s true if their lungs are falling apart because of something they chose to do”
The federal government has the power to regulate commerce, including banning any and all forms of commercial vaping products. And even if years of vaping use of a particular product by millions proves its safety.
In 1943, the US Supreme Court included home grown products in the scope of federal power.
There is also a famous marijuana case Gonzales v. Raich.
No, they do not have those powers.
They have pulled them from their asses by manipulating the meaning of words completely apart to the exercise of the origional right, of what those that Ratified agreed to, and pretending they have that authority.
The whole of the modern Court is in abeyance.