California Ban on In Store Flavored Vape Sales Begins Vaping360 The Reality of California's Flavored Vape Prohibition One Year Later THE LION Flavored vape has been illegal to sell in NYS since 2020. Flavored vape has lead to a large increase in youth using e cigarettes. This ban helps protect young people who have the California ban on sales of flavored tobacco takes effect Sacramento Bee Proposition 31 in California brought the "flavor ban" to protect minors from being marketed to and reduce the harm caused by flavor chemicals. Flavored e cigarettes and nicotine pouches are still being acquired