I’m a 52 yr. old woman who began smoking at age 12. Everyone in my family smoked and when I married, my husband smoked. I never thought I’d be able to quit smoking, in fact I went from smoking a pack a day to almost 3 packs a day by the time I was 30. Three of my four kids began smoking, too. Then almost 11 months ago my oldest son introduced me to electronic cigarettes. He’d been vaping ecigs for about 3 months and completely quit smoking tobacco. I bought a kit with the ejuice,tank,chargerand two ecig batteries for about the price of a carton of the Marlboros I smoked. I’ve been tobacco free since and already my nicotine level has decreased from 30mg to 18 mg. I have no desire to smoke tobacco, in fact I absentmindedly lit one of my daughter’s analogs and it tasted so bad that I put it out. I’m saving hundreds of dollars a month, too. This winter when my smoking friends had respiratory infections I didn’t even catch a cold. My oldest son is still tobacco free. My husband has cut way down because of ecigs,although he still smokes when away from home. I feel better and hopefully stopped smoking in time to avoid lung disease. Why would our government even consider a ban on the best stop smoking method ever invented? I’ve had friends try other methods, like Chantrex and turns out to be a dangerous FDA approved drug that doesn’t work anyway. Electronic cigarettes will save lives and hope they aren’t taken away from consumers.