--- title: "JUUL Will Stop Selling Flavored Vape Juice in All Retail Stores" description: "E-cigarette company JUUL announced it will stop selling all of its e-cigarette flavor pods in all 90,000 plus retail stores. But will it dissuade the youth?" date: "2018-11-13" modified: "2018-11-13" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/juul-stop-selling-flavored-vape-juice" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "e-cigarette" - "juul" - "vape" --- # JUUL Will Stop Selling Flavored Vape Juice in All Retail Stores ![E-cigarette brand JUUL announced it will stop selling all of its e-cigarette flavor pods in all 90,000 plus retail stores. But will it dissuade the youth?]() *\Image: Tag Hartman-Simkins/JUUL\* ## Up in Smoke Facing criticism about underage users, e-cigarette maker JUUL has decided to pull all flavored JUUL pods from retail stores, and is adding additional age-verification systems to its web store. In an [update]() on its website, the company also said that it will stop retail orders to over 90,000 retail stores in the U.S. Anybody who wants to buy flavors other than tobacco, mint and menthol will have to prove their age by giving up information like "name, date of birth, permanent address, and the last four digits of their social security number" to verify they are older than 21. The news comes after the FDA [raided the company's headquarters]() in San Francisco in October, seizing thousands of documents about the company's marketing strategies. ## Social Media Crackdown JUUL has also announced it will shut down its U.S.-based social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram. It will also start asking other accounts to remove "unauthorized, youth-oriented content" from their feeds. "By deterring social media promotion of the JUUL system by exiting our accounts, we can better prevent teens and non-smokers from ever becoming interested in the device," read the statement. ## Age-Gating In the future, JUUL says it hopes its next generation Bluetooth-enabled product will "break new ground on access restrictions at the user level" once it's released in the U.S. Pulling JUUL flavors off retail shelves is bound to make it harder for underage users to get their vape on, but will it be enough? Unlikely, considering the company's brand is only [one of hundreds](). READ MORE: [Juul Will Stop Selling Most E-Cigarette Flavors in Stores and Halt Social Media Promotions]() \[The New York Times\] More on JUUL: [The FDA Just Raided the Headquarters of E-Cigarette Maker JUUL]() ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()