The Food and Drug Administration has moved aggressively to regulate flavored vapes in recent years because of their popularity with young people. (Frank Franklin II/AP)
By Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a government effort to narrow options for challenging Food and Drug Administration denials of applications to market e-cigarettes, including flavored products that health officials say have led to a youth vaping epidemic.
In a case that centered on questions of venue-shopping, the justices ruled 7-2 that tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds was allowed to ask a conservative appeals court far from its North Carolina home to examine an FDA rejection of its bid to market menthol cigarettes. Anti-smoking groups said the ruling deals a blow to efforts to keep young people from vaping.
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