VAPING: E-cigarette sales halted at Walgreens, Kroger

Walgreens and Kroger said Monday they would stop selling e-cigarettes. The move makes them the latest national retailers to get out of the vaping business amid health concerns and growing regulatory scrutiny. Walgreens, the nation’s largest drugstore chain by total locations, will stop selling e-cigarettes permanently, spokesman Phil Caruso said in an email. Caruso said Walgreens had not determined a timeline for the phaseout, but “we plan to exit in an orderly manner.”