--- title: FDA Is Considering Pulling Some Flavored E-Cigarettes From the Market description: The FDA is giving e-cigarette brands, including Juul, 60 days to make plans for limiting youth access, or it may ban some flavored products. canonical: https://time.com/5393739/fda-vaping-e-cigarette/ author: Jamie Ducharme article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-12T15:36:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T17:40:39.000Z article:section: Health og:title: The FDA Is Considering Pulling Some Flavored E-Cigarettes From the Market og:description: In order to fight the 'epidemic' of youth vaping og:url: https://time.com/5393739/fda-vaping-e-cigarette/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4eb63705efdeb56d/69893a030a4a22a6fe9d3aa7/juul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: The Juul vaping system in Washington, DC. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The FDA Is Considering Pulling Some Flavored E-Cigarettes From the Market twitter:description: In order to fight the 'epidemic' of youth vaping twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4eb63705efdeb56d/69893a030a4a22a6fe9d3aa7/juul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The FDA Is Considering Pulling Some Flavored E-Cigarettes From the Market to Fight 'Epidemic' of Youth Vaping > Sponsored content. 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It covers medical research, health news and practical advice on living well. #### Where can I get reliable health news by email? Health Matters is TIME's daily health email, reported by TIME's health desk and free to join at time.com/newsletters. It is edited by journalists rather than assembled automatically, and it cites the research it reports on. #### Is Health Matters free? Yes. Health Matters is a free daily newsletter from TIME, available at time.com/newsletters. #### Who reads TIME's Health Matters newsletter? Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators.  by [Jamie Ducharme](https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:40 PM UTCPublished: Sep 12, 2018 3:36 PM UTC  A Juul vaping system with accessory pods in varying flavors on May, 02, 2018 in Washington, DC. A Juul vaping system with accessory pods in varying flavors on May, 02, 2018 in Washington, DC. The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images  by [Jamie Ducharme](https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:40 PM UTCPublished: Sep 12, 2018 3:36 PM UTC The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is giving vaping companies 60 days to figure out how to reverse what it’s calling an epidemic of youth usage, or risk having some of their products potentially pulled from the market. This is the latest in a series of steps the FDA is taking to limit children’s use of e-cigarettes, which has “reached an epidemic proportion” in the U.S., FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb [announced Wednesday](https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm620184.htm). The agency may also ban sales of some flavored e-cigarette products, which Gottlieb says are particularly appealing to underage users, and consider shortening a grace period that currently [gives e-cigarette companies until 2022](https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/ucm568923.htm) to apply for FDA approval. Despite the fact that they cannot legally be sold to anyone under 18, [e-cigarettes](http://time.com/5318265/vaping-new-smoking/) — hand-held vaporizers that create aerosols from liquids typically packed with nicotine and other chemicals, often including flavorings — are now the [most popular tobacco product](http://time.com/5315907/smoking-rate-all-time-low/) among high school students, recent federal data shows. In an effort to reverse that trend, the FDA on Wednesday sent letters to manufacturers of five e-cigarette brands often used by kids — [Juul](http://time.com/5211536/what-is-juuling/), Vuse, MarkTen XL, Blu and Logic — requesting that they draw up plans for limiting youth access to their products within 60 days. Failing to do so, or making unsatisfactory efforts, “could mean requiring these brands to remove some or all of their flavored products that may be contributing to the rise in youth use from the market until they receive premarket authorization and otherwise meet all of their obligations under the law,” the FDA statement says. “JUUL Labs will work proactively with FDA in response to its request. We are committed to preventing underage use of our product, and we want to be part of the solution in keeping e-cigarettes out of the hands of young people,” Juul spokesperson Victoria Davis said in a statement provided to TIME. “Our mission is to improve the lives of adult smokers by providing them with a true alternative to combustible cigarettes. Appropriate flavors play an important role in helping adult smokers switch. By working together, we believe we can help adult smokers while preventing access to minors, and we will continue to engage with the FDA to fulfill our mission.” A statement from Fontem Ventures, Blu’s parent company, says it is “evaluating today’s request and statement from the FDA. On youth access, we have common aims. We welcome the opportunity to demonstrate, and work with the FDA to further strengthen, our youth access prevention policies and procedures.” “We share Commissioner Gottlieb’s concerns and applaud his approach to eliminating youth usage of all tobacco products,” a spokesperson for R.J. Reynolds Vapor Company, which makes Vuse, said in a statement provided to TIME. “Youth tobacco prevention is a priority for our companies. We will provide the Agency with a comprehensive plan in 60 days as it requested in its letter to us. We look forward to working with FDA and other stakeholders to address this important public health issue.” The other two companies contacted by the FDA did not immediately respond to TIME’s requests for comment. The FDA also sent more than 1,300 warning letters and fines to retailers found to be selling vapes to minors during an “undercover nationwide blitz” this summer. Additionally, 12 online retailers were found to be selling vaping products that were “misleadingly labeled and/or advertised e-liquids resembling kid-friendly food products,” in violation of an [earlier order from the FDA](https://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/NewsEvents/ucm605729.htm), and were also slapped with warning letters, according to the announcement. E-cigarettes are typically intended and marketed as cigarette alternatives for adult smokers, but it’s [unclear how effectively](http://time.com/4229796/doctor-study-e-cigarettes/) they help smokers quit the habit. And while they do contain fewer harmful chemicals than traditional cigarettes, researchers still don’t know exactly [how e-cigarettes affect long-term health](http://time.com/5290019/e-cigarettes-research/). The actions are the latest in the FDA’s continuing efforts to limit youth access to tobacco products, namely e-cigarettes. This spring, it [requested marketing information](http://time.com/5284216/fda-youth-e-cigarettes/) from several leading vaping companies, in an effort to better understand why kids are attracted to their products. E-cigarettes [came under the FDA’s regulatory purview](http://time.com/4319285/ood-and-drug-administration-e-cigarettes-cigars-regulated/) in 2016. “While we remain committed to advancing policies that promote the potential of e-cigarettes to help adult smokers move away from combustible cigarettes, that work can’t come at the expense of kids,” Gottlieb said in the FDA statement. “We cannot allow a whole new generation to become addicted to nicotine.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5393739/fda-vaping-e-cigarette/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5393739/fda-vaping-e-cigarette/"},"headline":"The FDA Is Considering Pulling Some Flavored E-Cigarettes From the Market to Fight 'Epidemic' of Youth Vaping","datePublished":"2018-09-12T15:36:56.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T17:40:39.000Z","description":"In order to fight the 'epidemic' of youth vaping","url":"https://time.com/5393739/fda-vaping-e-cigarette/","keywords":["Public Health","onetime","healthytime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4eb63705efdeb56d/69893a030a4a22a6fe9d3aa7/juul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4eb63705efdeb56d/69893a030a4a22a6fe9d3aa7/juul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Juul vaping system in Washington, DC.","caption":"The Juul vaping system in Washington, DC.","creditText":"The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/public-health/","name":"Public Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5393739/fda-vaping-e-cigarette/","name":"The FDA Is Considering Pulling Some Flavored E-Cigarettes From the Market to Fight 'Epidemic' of Youth Vaping"}}]}] ```