Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced Gottlieb’s planned resignation in a statement Tuesday
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Gottlieb bucked expectations by pushing the agency to expand its authorities in several key ways, including an unprecedented effort to make cigarettes less addictive by requiring lower nicotine levels. More recently, Gottlieb has been criticized for not acting sooner to address an explosion in teenage use of e-cigarettes.
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