San Antonio, Texas (CaymanMama.com) — The Food and Drug Administration is revving up their battle against cigarettes by warning several online vendors to quit selling banned flavored cigarettes to American consumers on the web.

The agency mailed off at least a dozen letters to Web-based companies notifying them that they are in violation of a new ban, and requesting that the companies describe in writing what action they have taken to remain in compliance.

The Food and Drug Administration has banned candy cigarettes, and fruit- and clove-flavored cigarettes, on the basis that they are particularly appealing to young people and may even attract new smokers.

“FDA takes the enforcement of this flavored cigarette ban seriously,” Dr. Lawrence R. Deyton, director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said in a statement.

“These actions should send a clear message to those who continue to break the law that FDA will take necessary actions to protect our children from initiating tobacco use.”

According to agency research, 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to smoke flavored cigarettes as smokers aged 25 and older.

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