You might be wondering which U.S. states are banning vapes in 2025. The topic can feel confusing, especially since many vapers think efforts to keep people under 21 from vaping mean a total ban. Is that perception accurate? By reviewing the current context of vaping laws, we can address if this is true, and explore what’s happening in various states regarding 2025 vape regulations. It’s partly a question of which vapes are banned, and also about state-specific regulations.
No Nationwide Ban
You should know that there’s no federal ban on vaping in the United States as of 2025. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates vaping products under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Pre-market approval must be granted for new products. The FDA’s oversight focuses on health risks and how vapes are marketed. It doesn’t prohibit vaping entirely, or impose total bans or new vaping laws in 2025.
Vape laws by state follow federal laws and also set their own vape restrictions.
State Vaping Laws 2025
So are there vape bans by state in 2025 overall, or are they specific? There are many variables, including:
State-Level Flavor Ban Vape Restrictions
States have increased vaping regulations in 2025, and mostly focus on flavored vape ban restrictions. Here are some updates on states banning flavored vapes:
California has prohibited the sale of flavored vapes in-store since 2022. As of January 1, 2025, this flavor prohibition extended to internet sales of all nicotine and nicotine analogs. While tobacco and menthol tastes are still available, Californians can’t purchase any fruit or dessert-flavored vapes online. Beginning January 1, 2025, Utah outlawed flavored vapes (apart from tobacco and menthol). The Utah flavored vape ban was then later challenged, but upheld by a federal judge in March 2025.
On the East Coast, several states have either kept up their existing restrictions or strictly implemented them. Rhode Island enforced a flavored vape ban on January 1, 2025. It made permanent a restriction from a 2019 executive order. (There is a bill [as of March 2025] for support of vape shops to be exempted from this ban.) Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York maintain bans on flavored vapes, allowing only tobacco flavors. The District of Columbia and cities like Chicago, Denver, and Columbus, Ohio, have similar flavor restrictions. Maryland limits flavored product sales to age-restricted venues.
So, in 2025 we see that states aren’t banning vapes overall. They actually are banning certain types of vapes, focusing mainly on flavored varieties.
States with Online Sales Bans
Again, it may appear that vapes are banned overall, when in reality, certain restrictions are in force, such as these states’ online sales bans:
- Arkansas: Online sales are banned, and retailers must register and get a permit to sell vapes.
- Georgia: Online sales are limited to in-person transactions.
- Hawaii: Prohibits online sales from out-of-state sources, except for licensed retailers.
- Maine: Online sales are banned, but licensed businesses are exempt.
- Nebraska: Online sales are only allowed to licensed entities.
- Oregon: Online sales are prohibited, except for transactions between licensed businesses.
- South Dakota: Shipping of tobacco products, including vapes, is banned.
- Utah: Online sales are prohibited, but licensed businesses are exempt.
- Vermont: Online sales are only permitted to licensed entities.
States That Regulate Public Vaping
You may also wonder which states ban public indoor vaping. The CDC offers this current information per their website:
“As of September 30, 2024 20 states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, and Vermont) the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have passed comprehensive smokefree indoor air laws that include e-cigarettes. These laws prohibit smoking and the use of e-cigarettes in indoor areas of private worksites, restaurants, and bars.”
Staying Informed
What do all these federal and state laws mean? Flavor bans and public use restrictions can seem like a full vape ban. For 2025, at least, the FDA imposes its own vape regulations and states follow these, and also enforce their own laws, that often conform to clean-air act and tobacco laws already enacted. Most states target specific issues—youth access, flavored products, or unauthorized devices—rather than banning vaping outright. To stay current, check local laws through your state’s health department or CASAA’s state locator. While 2025 regulations are complex, vaping remains legal for 21 and older adults in every state, with varying limits.
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