A ban on flavoured vaping products with the exception of menthol and tobacco flavours, is being finalized by the Trump administration and will likely be an announced this week.
Last September, the Trump administration announced that plans to ban flavoured vaping products were underway. Subsequently, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, confirmed the plans last month, when in response to an announcement by Juul that it would stop selling the flavoured products, he said that this move would not affect the administration’s plans in anyway. “We want anything that’s attractive to kids to not be available for kids,” he said, “It doesn’t stop what the president and I are working on.”
Additionally, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, Mitch Zeller, had also emphasized that the administration was “hard at work” on the flavour ban. “It’s one of the reasons why I need to get back to the office after this talk,” he said at the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Tobacco and Nicotine Products Regulation and Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.. “And I cannot talk publicly about any of those internal deliberations other than to say more details to follow as soon as that guidance document is released.”
To this effect, according to sources familiar with the plan, an announcement can be expected this week. The ban is expected to apply to all flavours with the exception of tobacco and menthol flavours, as officials believe that the latter two flavours are less favoured by minors and more popular amongst adults.
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