Despite Juul crackdown, the FDA isn’t enforcing its own vaping rules

Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that e-cigarette startups like Juul have 60 days to prove they can keep their devices out of the hands of kids, or their products might be taken off the market. But a new report shows that despite this high-profile crackdown, the FDA isn’t doing enough when it comes to another part of the vaping market: copycats.

Two years ago, the FDA new rules in place that essentially banned new e-cig companies from entering the market unless they went through an extensive review process. According to a new Reuters report, however, in the years since, more than a dozen vaping devices have started selling with little consequence.

These include both large tobacco companies like British...

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