The legal challenge was aimed at 2024's House Bill 11, which set new guidelines and enforcement rules relating to vapor products. Under the law, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers can sell only “authorized” vape products to those 21 and over.
Vape retailers, who have opposed the law, have described it as government overreach that threatened their businesses.
The challengers had appealed to the Sixth Circuit in February, but have now voluntarily dismissed the suit. Attorney General Russell Coleman's office described the end of the months-long court battle a "major victory" in upholding a law meant to protect Kentuckians' health and safety.
Last July, General Coleman defeated a state-court challenge to the law before the Franklin Circuit Court. The appeal of that decision remains pending in the Kentucky Court of Appeals.