UPDATE 3-U.S. FDA considers ban on flavored e-cigarettes to protect minors
September 12, 2018 at 14:49 PM EDT
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on flavored e-cigarettes as it grapples with an "epidemic" of youth e-cigarette use that threatens to create a new generation of nicotine addicts, the agency's head said on Wednesday.