Flavored vape products would only be available in age-restricted tobacco specialty shops under rules proposed this week by state officials.
The draft rules, published on Wednesday, would reinstate a ban on flavored e-cigarette products for general retailers, like grocery and convenience stores. In October, a judge struck down the ban, which was implemented on an emergency basis following a spate of serious lung illnesses related to vaping.
The state had justified the emergency restriction on the popular flavored nicotine products by arguing they attract young people to vaping. That can eventually lead those consumers to the illegal THC products that were implicated in an outbreak of serious lung illnesses nationwide.