A salesman reaches for a of Juul Labs Inc., device kit for a customer at Discount Cigarettes and Cigars store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. The city voted Tuesday to ban sales of e-cigarettes, making it illegal to sell nicotine vaporizer products in stores or for online retailers to ship the goods to San Francisco addresses. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg A salesman reaches for a Juul Labs device kit for a customer at Discount Cigarettes and Cigars store in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. The city voted to ban sales of e-cigarettes, making it illegal to sell nicotine vaporizer products in stores or for online retailers to ship the goods to San Francisco addresses. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)

The future of one of the U.S.'s most lucrative businesses is up in the air as e-cigarette makers face an FDA review that could make or break the industry that has faced immense scrutiny over a teen vaping epidemic and vaping-related lung injuries.

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Heather A. Turner

Heather A. Turner is the managing editor of ALM's NU Property & Casualty Group. She can be reached at [email protected].