High Court Suggests Flavored E-Cigarettes’ Fate Up to Trump (1)

US Supreme Court justices were skeptical that they could give any relief to companies whose applications to sell flavored vape products were denied by the Food and Drug Administration, suggesting that their best hope was with the incoming Trump administration.

The FDA said it denied the applications because the companies hadn’t adequately shown that the benefits of flavored tobacco products in helping current smokers quit was greater than the risk that non-smokers, particularly children, would be attracted to those products.

During arguments on Monday, some of the justices were critical of how the agency considered the applications, which the companies ...