An worker picks up a Juul Labs machine equipment for a buyer at a retailer in San Francisco.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty PhotographsThe Tr
An worker picks up a Juul Labs machine equipment for a buyer at a retailer in San Francisco.
David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs
The Trump administration will ban flavored e-cigarette pods, excluding menthol and tobacco flavors, and flavored liquid nicotine merchandise generally bought in vape retailers, a senior administration official advised CNBC.
The administration is anticipated to make a proper announcement on Friday, the official mentioned, cautioning that nothing is particular till the announcement has been made.
The information was first reported by the Wall Avenue Journal citing folks conversant in the matter, adopted by studies from the Washington Submit and New York Instances.
The choice involves an industry that has been on edge since September. President Donald Trump first suggested a federal ban on flavored e-cigarettes earlier this yr, however later retreated from that place.
Within the interim, Trump has heard suggestions from vaping industry executives, public health advocates and small enterprise homeowners apprehensive in regards to the influence flavored vaping ban might have on their enterprise. The exemption for merchandise bought in vaping retailers is more likely to ease these considerations forward of the 2020 presidential elections.
Small enterprise homeowners and advocates cheered the information on Twitter Tuesday night time.
“When the ban was introduced on 9/11, we had little hope of truly stopping…