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title: FDA Authorizes the JUUL2 Vaping System Four Years After Moving to Ban Juul
description: The clearance covers a redesigned system with optional built-in age verification, and it returns Juul to a legal market it no longer leads.
author: Darie Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-08-29T05:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-08-29T10:24:39.124Z
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The FDA on August 28, 2026 authorized Juul to sell its next-generation vaping system in the United States, granting marketing orders for the JUUL2 device and its tobacco- and menthol-flavored pods. The decision arrives a little over four years after the agency moved to pull Juul's products from American shelves, and it is the company's first newly authorized hardware in more than a decade.

In issuing the orders, the FDA applied its statutory standard, finding the products “appropriate for the protection of the public health.”

## A Redesigned Device With Optional Age Verification

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