In the final days of the Biden administration, the F.D.A. is moving ahead with a proposal to require companies to produce a less addictive product for traditional smokers.
In the hills above Pacific Palisades, there is crime scene tape and scattered debris, clues to what may have caused the initial fire that eventually raged through thousands of structures.
Medical historians say that the phrase βMake America Healthy Againβ obscures a past during which this countryβs people ate, smoked and drank things that mostly left them unwell.