E-cigarettes have been a hot topic in health-related news over the last few weeks. This summer we have seen six deaths possibly related to vaping and 380 cases of vaping-related respiratory illnesses across the country.

In response, my home state of Michigan has already banned flavored e-cigarettes and New York may be next with several other states considering similar legislation. President Trump recently announced that his administration is working to ban flavored e-cigarettes on a national level. This health crisis is serious and is even more critical because teens are some of the most prominent e-cigarette and vaping users.

Five million minors have reported using e-cigarettes recently. Of high school students in the U.S., one-quarter say they vaped in the last month. Although the legal age to buy e-cigarettes is 18 or 21, depending on the state, teens can easily buy them online, and vaping devices can come in the form of a pen or flash drive, so they are easy to hide at school and in public. (JUUL is one of the most popular brands of e-cigarettes known for their flash-drive shaped vaping devices. They've come under a lot of scrutiny with the FDA and CDC and have been accused…