California's proposed flavored tobacco ban gives hookah a pass Flavored tobacco ban could harm local businesses El Camino College The Union Fruit flavored vapes just cleared a major hurdle with the FDA. The Food and Drug Administration authorizing the marketing of fruit flavored e cigarettes, marking the first time it has approved this category of vaping Officers assigned to our Downtown Unit confiscated over 350 flavored Vape cartridges from a local business. As everyone knows, selling flavored tobacco products is illegal in California.