US supermarket giant Walmart will axe e-cigarettes after a spate of vaping-related deaths.
The chain, which owns Asda in the UK, has reacted after Donald Trump said he will ban some flavoured e-cigarettes.
More than 450 reported cases of lung illnesses across 33 states have been linked with the use of these.
"Given the growing federal, state and local regulatory complexity and uncertainty regarding e-cigarettes, we plan to discontinue the sale of electronic nicotine delivery products at all Walmart and Sam's Club US locations," the company said in a statement.
"We will complete our exit after selling through current inventory."
It is unclear if this call affects Asda.
But Walmart, which has headquarters in Bentonville, Arkanas, raised the minimum age to buy tobacco to 21. The changes took effect July 1 at all American Walmart locations.
Speaking earlier this month at the White House, Mr Trump said: "We can't allow people to get sick and we can't have our youth be so affected.
"That's how the first lady got involved.
"She's got a son, together, that is a beautiful young man and she feels very, very strongly about it.
"People are going to watch what we're saying and parents are going be a lot tougher with respect to their children."
The modern e-cigarette design was patented in 2003 and its popularity soared soon afterwards.
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