Illegal Flavored E-cigarettes Sold Openly in NY Shopping Centers

At a shopping center in Onondaga County, Syracuse, New York, a store selling electronic cigarettes has stocked its back wall with brightly colored small boxes. According to the store clerks, any electronic cigarette flavor one can imagine is available there.

They are all illegal. In 2019, New York became the first city to ban flavored electronic cigarettes in an effort to combat the teen vaping epidemic fueled by candy-flavored nicotine vapor. Kids thought they were vaping sour apple and cotton candy, but instead were getting addicted to nicotine. Teens too young to drive ended up in the emergency room with lungs that looked like they belonged to an 80-year-old chain smoker. They called it popcorn lung.

However, county health officials and e-cigarette shops have largely disregarded the flavored e-cigarette ban. Illegal e-cigarettes are still being sold in dozens of stores throughout central New York, openly displayed on shelves to encourage young people to adopt this habit that has become a national children's health disaster.

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