WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A U.S. judge said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn’t have authority to regulate electronic cigarettes, dealing a blow to the agency’s efforts to regulate tobacco products as drugs or devices. In a 32-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon sided...

In my lifelong quest to become America’s Most Reviled Columnist, I have taken up smoking, again. Not my beloved Larks (gack!) or non-filter Kools (double gack!) of yore. Now I am smoking a plastic doohickey known as an electronic cigarette. E-cigarettes are to tobacco cigarettes as e-mail is to snail...