As electronic cigarettes soar in popularity in the U.S. and troubling reports arise about use in teens and a surge in e-juice poisonings, the U.S. government is proposing historic rules to ban their sale to minors  and require warning labels as well as federal approval today. Three years after saying it would regulate e-cigarettes, we applaud the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

 Tobacco is the only legal product in our country that, when used as directed, will kill half the people who use it. It costs Kansans 3,800 lives a year, $927M in health care costs and $906M in lost productivity. Kansas youth begin smoking at a rate of 2,800 new smokers per year and 61,000 Kansas kids alive today will eventually