South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined a 13-state coalition in a letter to major credit card networks (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover) urging them to stop processing payments for illegal e-cigarette products. The coalition states that only 41 e-cigarette products have received FDA authorization for legal sale, while thousands of unauthorized brands continue to sell products generating $11 billion in annual retail sales—representing over 80% of the U.S. e-cigarette market. The AGs argue that payment platforms are already violating their own network rules regarding illegal transactions and high-risk merchant categories by facilitating these sales.