Finance Committee keeps menthol cigarettes, moves forward with flavored vape ban Yankee Institute The FDA has authorized fruit flavored electronic cigarettes, intended for adult smokers, after months of appeals from the vaping industry. Previously the FDA had only granted permission to tobacco or menthol flavored vaping products. F.D.A. Plans to Ban Most E Cigarette Flavors but Menthol The New York Times Fed ban on flavored vapes imminent, menthol and vape stores may be spared A new bill in the Illinois Senate would ban the sale of all flavored tobacco and nicotine products statewide, including menthol cigarettes and flavored vapes. SB3148 creates the Flavored Tobacco Ban Act