No, they took the stance that this crusade against good flavors should specifically and only apply to Juul. Maybe deservedly given Juul's behavior in marketing to teenagers. Today, you can go to gas stations in most states and buy Cherry Ice Lemonade Cotton Candy Mr Fog vapes, or Geekbars, or whatever brand shipped straight from China is popular this month. To be honest, even if Juul were allowed to bring Mango back, I'm not sure anyone would buy it; compared to the actual desserts you can smoke today, Juul Mango doesn't hold a candle.
In other words: Our government utterly decimated an American company just to make room in the market for Chinese competitors to dominate.
Would this not be due to the unfortunate reality that litigation and enforcement can be carried out against domestic companies more effectively than foreign ones?
Because it's hard to get any laws passed, much less a law that tackles two major things (tobacco and alcohol) at once
In most US states the sale of alcohol is already much more restricted than the sale of tobacco.
You can walk into any 7-11, convenience store, or gas station and buy tobacco. In most states, this is not true for alcohol.
Also, tobacco vape use is much more addictive and somewhat more concealable than alcohol. People can generally tell or at least suspect you've been drinking; people generally cannot tell if you just vaped 10 seconds ago in the bathroom.
It's far from ideal and you and I would certainly not design a country from scratch this way, but legislation (at least, ideally) deals with things as they are and not with an imagined tabula rasa state of affairs.
In other words: Our government utterly decimated an American company just to make room in the market for Chinese competitors to dominate.