HOUSTON – Puff, poof, gone.

Many vapes have vanished from store shelves across Texas.

Clouds of confusion are hanging over smoke shops as a new law has made entire product lines disappear almost overnight.

Okay, enough puns. But the problem is very real for customers and business owners.

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Oscar Gomez, manager of 1 Stop Smoke Shop in Houston, said the impact has been immediate.

“There it says: Made In China,” Gomez said, pointing to one of the products now illegal in Texas. “Not just on this one, all of them are made in China.”

Under the new law, all vapes made in China and other countries considered “adversary nations” are now illegal to sell in Texas.

Vapes and e-cigarettes made in th

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