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The parent company advertised “discreet” shipping methods, including not mentioning e-cigarettes “anywhere on the package” but instead labeling contents “atomizer, coil, tube, etc.”

In only two years, a small, colorful vaping device called Elf Bar has become the most popular disposable e-cigarette in the world, generating billions in sales and quickly emerging as the overwhelming favorite of underage U.S. teens who vape.

Fruit-and-candy-flavored disposables began pouring into the U.S. shortly before Chinese regulators banned vaping flavors last year.

Fruit-and-candy-flavored disposables began pouring into the U.S. shortly before Chinese regulators banned vaping flavors last year.

Until recently, the Chinese manufacturer behind Elf Bar e-cigarettes was able to slip its products passed U.S. customs officials.

By Chris Kirkham, Arriana McLymore and Gigi Zamora

Since 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sought to crack down on fruity, sweet-flavored e-cigarettes that hook teenagers on nicotine.

After the U.S.FDA prohibited JUUL from selling their sweet-flavored vaporizer pods in 2019, new disposable vapes with candy-like flavors have taken over the vape market.