FDA bans most e-cigarette flavors

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ordered companies to stop manufacturing, distributing and selling most cartridge-based electronic cigarette flavors by early February, saying the crackdown is urgently needed to reduce teen vaping. The deadline was announced as the Trump administration officially unveiled its long-debated vaping policy. The ban affects the fruit- and mint-flavored pods that have soared in popularity among young people but does not apply to menthol- or tobacco-flavored cartridges. It also spares the kind of e-liquids used in open-tank systems typically sold by...