{"id":3636,"date":"2018-10-25T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/marlboro-maker-axes-flavoured-e-cigarettes\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:54:19","slug":"marlboro-maker-axes-flavoured-e-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/marlboro-maker-axes-flavoured-e-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlboro maker axes flavoured e-cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Man vaping\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/4E5F\/production\/_104036002_gettyimages-1044550076.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Altria, the tobacco firm which owns Marlboro, will stop selling several of its e-cigarette products.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows concerns that &#8220;vaping&#8221; is becoming increasingly popular with children. <\/p>\n<p>The US Food and Drug Administration has launched a campaign against firms marketing e-cigarettes in a way that appeals to under-age users. <\/p>\n<p>Altria also said it would support moves to make 21 the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products.<\/p>\n<p>The US firm will remove two of its pod-based products, MarkTen Elite and Apex by MarkTen from the market.<\/p>\n<p>It also said it would sell only tobacco, menthol and mint flavours for its other, non pod-based vaping devices.<\/p>\n<p>Altria said it would consider selling the withdrawn products again if the FDA clarified the rules around marketing them or if &#8220;the youth issue is otherwise addressed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The devices being withdrawn represent about a fifth of the e-cigarette products sold by the company. <\/p>\n<p>Flavoured varieties of e-cigarettes have come under scrutiny in many markets due to the particular appeal they appear to have for younger palates. <\/p>\n<p>They are available in flavours such as bubble gum and candy floss as well as a range of fruit flavours. Some are packaged in bright primary colours with cartoonish illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>The market for vaping products has grown rapidly in recent years and is now worth more than $10bn globally.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45984049\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Altria, the tobacco firm which owns Marlboro, will stop selling several of its e-cigarette products. The decision follows concerns that &#8220;vaping&#8221; is becoming increasingly popular with children. The US Food and Drug Administration has launched a campaign against firms marketing e-cigarettes in a way that appeals to under-age users. Altria also &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}