FDA can block flavored vapes according to Supreme Court ruling

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — The FDA can block the sale of flavored e-cigarettes due to a ruling this week by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The FDA had argued flavored vapes posed a risk to children by encouraging them to use tobacco products. The products are sold under names such as Cookies, Killer Kustard Blueberry, Suicide Bunny Mother’s Milk and Pineapple Express.

“The Supreme Court came to its senses and ruled that we can regulate those flavors out,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), who has worked to get flavored vapes banned. “There’s only one target for those flavors and that’s our children and that’s got to stop.”

The FDA began regulating vape products in 2016 after they were already on the market.