US's largest retailer Walmart says it will stop selling electronic cigarettes amid vaping backlash and deaths
In this file photo, a Walmart logo is displayed outside of a Walmart store, in Walpole, Mass. Walmart says it will stop selling electronic cigarettes at its namesake stores and Sam's Clubs following a string of illnesses and deaths related to vaping. September 3, 2019. The nation's largest retailer said on Friday that it will stop selling electronic cigarettes at its namesake stores and Sam's Clubs in the US when it sells out its current inventory.
But the industry has come under increased scrutiny after the deaths and illnesses – along with a surge in underage vaping. E-cigarettes represent a very small part of Walmart's nicotine business, which also includes traditional cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and nicotine gum, so the impact on the retailer will be small.
The Vapor Technology Association, a trade group, was quick to slam Walmart's move against vaping products while keeping cigarettes on its shelves. In July, Walmart, which is based in Bentonville, Arkansas, raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products, including all e-cigarettes, to 21. It also said then that it was in the process of discontinuing the sale of fruit- and dessert-flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems.
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