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You may have seen this photo of cigarettes in a French fry cup before

While national laws are in the works, the only hard-and-fast rules about traveling with electronic cigarettes for now are you cannot use them during a flight, and the TSA requires batteries to not be packed in checked baggage

The key to staying safe is to always buy your vaping device from a formal and trusted source

Importantly, all new nicotine or tobacco products that were first commercially marketed in the United States after February 15, 2007, including all e-cigarettes, are required to apply to the FDA in order to be legally marketed and sold in the United States (this is known as a Premarket Tobacco Product Application, or PMTA)

As long as flavored e-cigarettes remain available, kids will find ways to get them and this epidemic will continue. CNNs Phil Mattingly, Caroline Kelly, Nadia Kounang and Jamie Gumbrecht contributed to this report.