Amid pressure from the AMA and other physician and public health organizations, the Trump administration is moving to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarette cartridges used in closed system e-cigarettes such as those made by Juul, a subsidiary of Marlboro owner Altria Group Inc.

However, the new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announcement leaves untouched—for now—the sale of tobacco- or menthol- flavored cartridge-based products, as well as open systems in which users refill their e-cigarette devices with exotic flavors of nicotine juices widely sold at vaping shops.

The “new policy to address the youth e-cigarette epidemic by limiting flavors in some vaping products is a step in the right direction, but does not go far enough,” said AMA President Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA. “The AMA is disappointed that menthol flavors—one of the most popular—will still be allowed, and that flavored e-liquids will remain on the market, leaving young people with easy access to alternative flavored e-cigarette products.”

My latest for the AMA. The whole shebang.