FDA-commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced that most flavored
e-cigarette liquids would be banned from stores unless they have
stringent age-verification measures in place. Fruity and
creamy flavors appeal to children will disappear from open
convenience store shelves. Users will have to enter specialized
vaping shops or tobacco stores to get flavors other than mint,
menthol and tobacco. Other stores can sell additional flavors but only
if they have separate, age-controlled rooms dedicated to their
sale. Web sales, too, will require more extensive age-checking
measures.
But more and more communities (e.g. San Francisco) have argued that
fruit, dessert, tropical and candy e-liquid and nicotine salt
flavors encourage underage vaping and have proposed and/or passed
bans on all flavored tobacco
products.