A Michigan judge temporarily blocked the state's two-week-old ban on flavored e-cigarettes Tuesday.

The judge who blocked the ban said preventing the sale of e-cigarettes may force adults to return to smoking more harmful tobacco products and irreparably hurting vaping businesses.

In the lawsuit filed by two Michigan businesses called 906 Vapor and A Clean Cigarette said businesses lost a significant portion in sales. The judge also stated that the use of vaping products is not a state of emergency, and therefore the ban is void.

Two weeks ago, a New York appellate court also blocked an emergency ban put in place by Governor Andrew Cuomo, who did so because of a rising number of vaping-related illnesses and an epidemic of teen e-cigarette use.

"Our hope is we can convince the governor and state legislature that the best way to deal with this problem is not prohibition,” said Joel Giambra, a consultant for Demand Vapes. “We want a balance. We know from past history that prohibition is a very ineffective policy. And we are very much committed to working with them to get rational, reasonable legislation on the books and restrictions on use of product by young people."

Some of those proposed measures would be limiting advertisements and banning sales on third-party sites like Amazon.

As of last week, vaping-related illnesses in the United States reached 13 hundred cases, with 31 of those cases here in Western New York. But according to the CDC, most of these cases are linked to THC products bought off the street.