Totally Wicked, accusing the Food and Drug Administration of rule-making deigned to shut down the vaping industry, said it would close its US business in 2018.

A UK supplier of e-cigarettes and liquids, the base of Totally Wicked US operations is in Bradenton, Florida. The company said it was the first to open a brick-and-mortar vape shop in the US.
“The FDA is demanding fantastically unrealistic pre-market tobacco authorizations for a product that contains no tobacco, at a cost that is prohibitive to all but the tobacco giants, and bears no relations to the products’ risk or indeed, its remarkable potential when compared to the raging tobacco epidemic. It is designed quite simply to destroy the industry. By the end of 2018, there will be no independent vaping industry left within the USA – unless Congress decides to look deeper into this” the company said. US operations were started in 2008 and are slated for shutdown in the summer of 2018.