{"id":1016567,"date":"2026-06-24T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016567"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:52:28","slug":"shopify-to-ban-vapes-as-us-authorities-crack-down-on-illegal-e-cigarettes-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/shopify-to-ban-vapes-as-us-authorities-crack-down-on-illegal-e-cigarettes-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopify to ban vapes as US authorities crack down on illegal e-cigarettes industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London: Shopify Inc will ban all vapes \u200bfrom its platform as soon as this week after pressure from a group of U.S. state attorneys general aiming to curb sales of illegal e-cigarettes online, according to two sources familiar with its plans. <\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa-based company provides the underlying infrastructure that lets millions of merchants operate and scale e-commerce channels. It has been in talks since last year with a bipartisan coalition of \u200c25 state attorneys \u2060general, who \u2060have been pushing Shopify to do more to clamp down on a booming market for vapes that lack the legally required licence for U.S. sales, or violate other laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Shopify Inc will ban all vapes \u200bfrom its platform as soon as this week after pressure from a group of U.S. state attorneys general aiming to curb sales of illegal e-cigarettes online, according to two sources familiar with its plans. The Ottawa-based company provides the underlying infrastructure that lets millions of merchants operate and scale e-commerce channels. It has been in talks since last year with a bipartisan coalition of \u200c25 state attorneys \u2060general, who \u2060have been pushing Shopify to do more to clamp down on a booming market for vapes that lack the legally required licence for U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016588,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016567\/revisions\/1016588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}