In 2022 litigation, the co-founder of Buffalo-based Demand Vape told a federal judge that his company had sold more than $132 million worth of Elf Bar e-cigarettes in the past year. The company that makes Elf Bar is based in Shenzhen, China, and sells flavors including “strawberry mango” and “lemon mint.”

The state’s attorney general sued nine companies that make and distribute popular vaping devices, seeking a permanent ban on the flavored products.

New York sued several large e-cigarette manufacturers, distributors and retailers on Thursday, saying they fuelled a youth vaping epidemic by selling products with cartoonish packaging and flavours such as Baja Slushie,