Smoking: Illegal and dangerous: Mexico bans vaping Society EL PAS English Smoking Out the Illegal Vape Industry NACS Magazine Preventing Smoking, Vaping and Tobacco Use Douglas County Behind every vape in a teenager's hand is a seller who didn't care about the rules. Most kids don't just find illegal vapes or cigarettes someone sold it to them. Over 86% of e cigarettes on the U.S. market are illegal products from overseas, despite annual seizure of millions of illegal units by the FDA and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol