I’m a 34 year old female living in Yorkshire, Uk. I have been smoking on and off since i was 14. I have previously tried virtually every nicotine replacement product on the market – patches, lozenges, inhalators etc with limited success always ending up back smoking cigarettes again. I have now been using e-cigs for 2 weeks and have not looked back and honestly dont think i will. I am on a programme of gradual nicotine reduction which whilst satisfying my nicotine addiction is also addressing my need to physically smoke in a way which by any regard is significantly less harmful than smoking analogue cigarettes. Whilst I appreciate the view that regulation is necessary forcing these products down a pharmaceutical approval route is uneccessary and will only serve to drive a useful food grade product out of a market or perhaps worse be controlled exclusively by the conglomorate corporate pharma or tobacco industry. In the end the outcome will simply be to re-introduce millions of real people who have voices, votes and intelligence back to a harmful substance by lack of a workable alternative.