The courts have stepped in to temporarily stop the state's ban on flavored e-cigarette juices.

Last month, Gov. Cuomo instructed the state health department to ban flavored e-cigarettes after a string of deaths across the country connected to vaping. Though members of the vaping industry argue those deaths are unrelated.

Owner of the Joint Smoke & Vape Shop Nicholas Stumpf says he couldn’t believe the news Thursday.

“There’s no way to explain it," Stumpf said. "Anybody in this industry right now has been wondering if we’re going to be in business anymore. And some people have put 12 years into this industry already, and our families are on the line.”

A New York state appellate court has put a temporary injunction on last month’s regulation banning the sale of flavored e-cigarette juices.

“I’m very excited for tomorrow. We’re fully stocked with juice here, we’re ready to go,” Stumpf said.

The ban was supposed to take effect Friday. And in the two weeks since the state Department of Health’s ban, Stumpf says his store and others like his have been scrambling to get rid of product before then — taking quite the financial hit. He says he’s had to bring prices down to cost or below, and has lost close to $6,000.

“That’s only a couple weeks, imagine a year," Stumpf said. "This store was on track to do a quarter of a million dollars this year, and I’d say 30 percent of it was juice.”

But the injunction is also a relief to customers like Raymond Becker, who has been buying juice from Mad Hatter’s Hideaway in Irondequoit for two months now to curb his cigarette habit.

“I’ve cut down quite a bit, and things were going great," Becker said. "And all of a sudden they were going to put the ban in effect, and I feel that’s not cool.”

He hopes the injunction buys enough time for the courts to reach a new conclusion.

“I think it’s a good reprieve, I think they need to do a little more research to find out what exactly is going on so this way they can have a more informed position,” Becker said.

After all, the injunction is just temporary until the state Supreme Court makes a decision on October 18, meaning Stumpf’s business is still on the line.

“I can’t pay my bills without juice. I’ve been trying to think of what t-shirt lines, all sorts of crazy ideas to replace that, and there’s nothing to replace that,” Stumpf said.

And regardless of the outcome, Stumpf knows there’ll be a fight in the legislature once the state Assembly reconvenes next year.

“When they meet again, there’s going to be a battle. You better believe it," Stumpf said. "Because some people are so uneducated on vaping, and they’re just going with the flow.”