When my phone lit up with the notification I’d been expecting for weeks — that Juul would cave to pressure from the Trump administration and discontinue selling mint vaping pods — I promptly headed to the closest store selling pods I could find to stock up.

In my home city of Washington, D.C., I usually buy Juul pods at 7-Eleven. Here in New York City, there’s a vape shop on every block, so I headed to the first one I saw.