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Sales are rising of flavored e-cigarettes using synthetic nicotine that evades regulatory oversight, a gap that lawmakers are now trying to close.

Juul and other e-cigarette companies have—often with very good reason—become public enemy number one in the war on tobacco. But what if they do offer adult smokers a path to quitting?

The Food and Drug Administration banned flavored e-cigarettes, like Juul, citing their popularity among teens.

The FDA issued a first-of-its-kind authorization of the sale of an e-cigarette device and its associated tobacco-flavored cartridges in the US. It argued that the benefits for cigarette smokers aiming to ditch the habit outweigh the risks of youth appeal. The agency also denied approval of a handful of flavored cartridges produced by the same brand. The move could represent a new direction for tobacco regulation in the US.

In downtown Atlanta, there sits a small brick building that was the home to the first black-owned radio station – WERD – in the United States in the 1950s. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders used the broadcast to spread their messages, encourage black citizens to vote and announce civil rights marches in between the performances of black jazz and blues performers during the Jim Crow era.  One would hope that by the year 2021 the legacy that WERD left in American history would only help to grow and expand the number of black-owned radio stations. Unfortunately,...