Editorial: Banning flavored vapes may not stop a deadly respiratory outbreak, but it can cut teen use

The number of e-cigarette users, many of them teenagers, who have been stricken by a mysterious and acute lung illness has more than doubled around the country in just the last week. More than 450 people have been hospitalized with serious respiratory distress and six people have died. Public health officials still don't know what it is causing the ailment.

That's the bad news. The silver lining is that this mystery illness has