BRUSSELS — Has Europe reached peak vape? Yes — if the European Commission gets its way. When EU Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi announced he would hike the tax on e-cigarettes to match tobacco at a conference in Austria last week, his tax commissioner colleague Wopke Hoekstra was telling POLITICO back in Brussels that the industry is “manipulating” children into addiction by getting them hooked on vapes. “I call this the revenge of the tobacco industry,” he said in an interview at his

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