The smash-and-grab lasted less than a minute, and the video shows the thieves running out of the store, arms filled with the stolen goods.
Just before 5 a.m. Saturday, three people broke into the Vapor Lab in the Central Station Shopping Center.
Hardin County Schools, LaRue County Schools and Elizabethtown Independent Schools sent the letter out on Friday asking the businesses to obey the laws of selling vape products, and keeping them behind the counter.
The theft happened early Sunday morning at Derb E Cigs on State Street in New Albany.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the Food and Drug Administration will create guidelines to remove all e-cigarette flavors except tobacco from the market.
San Francisco will become the first US city to effectively ban e-cigarette sales, after the city's board of supervisors unanimously voted in favor of an ordinance Tuesday.