Walmart Inc. told its staff on Friday that it is discontinuing the sale of electronic cigarettes and electronic products with nicotine in its US stores. UU.
In an internal note seen by Reuters, the retailer said the decision is due to increasing complexity and federal, state and local regulatory uncertainty.
The growing offensive against electronic cigarettes comes immediately after the ban on sales of flavored vaporizer products in New York and Michigan and after the Trump administration announced plans to eliminate all flavored electronic cigarettes last week. Store shelves, as officials warned that sweet flavors had attracted millions of children to nicotine addiction.
President Donald Trump and other senior US officials. UU. They also expressed concern about the increasing use of electronic cigarettes in adolescents at a time when health officials are investigating hundreds of reports of lung diseases related to vaping and some deaths.
A possible culprit identified so far is a line of illicit marijuana vapor products sold under the brands "Dank Vapes" and "Chronic Carts".
The New York State Department of Health identified "Dank Vapes" and "Chronic Carts" as products containing vitamin E acetate, a thickener in THC oil that has focused on its disease research.
Leading manufacturers of nicotine electronic cigarettes, including Juul Labs Inc., British American Tobacco Plc and Imperial Brands Plc, said last week that their products did not contain vitamin E compounds.
In May, Walmart raised the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21 years in all its stores and said it would stop selling fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes.
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