My name is Robert. I am now, after smoking for 5 years since the age of 21, thankfully a fully ex-smoker of about 1 year now thanks to electronic cigarettes. Even greater, I am not the only one in my social circle. Ever since I realized how successful I was in quitting I spared no time in spreading the words to friends and family who are / were smokers, and to their own supprise they are going on a few months now without cigarettes as well. Electronic cigarettes work, while I’m sure you’ve heard countless stories of those who failed to quit smoking like I have, using much more expensive over-the-counter smoking cessation products. Personally I tried patches, gum and even welbutrin to fight cravings and at most I was able to quit for around 5 days, then back to cigarettes because of stress from school or work. Even a counselor could not help break me from this addiction. It was not until the success of others with e-cigs, specifically a few lets play streamers from Justin.tv that I decided to take a chance at trying to quit again. I did not just quit smoking immediately, though the transition happened exceptionally quickly. Within about 2 weeks of recieving my e-cig and a Vivi Nova tank, I was an ex smoker. As I smoked less and less, my sense of smell and taste began to come back. This made me realize how absolutely aweful cigarettes not only tasted, but made me smell to those around me. It also helped me quite a bit as a professional wine guide in our vineyard. Suddenly, wines had much more subtle flavors that danced on my tongue and bouquets were much more full bodied and luxurious. I also stopped putting people off with the smell of smoke staining my clothes. Over the course of the year I have been using an e-cigarette, I have naturally cut back on nicotine intake. I started at a high 24mg amount and after a month or two, cut that down to 18mg. After around 4 more months I found myself down to half of what I started at, 12mg. And now, one year later, I recently just picked up my first 8mg bottle and expect to find myself reducing that even more as time goes on. The wide variety of flavors was a huge contributor to my success story. Just tobacco can be boring and I never much cared for mint. Selections were there for anything from citrus and fruit flavors, to bakery goods like cake batter and snickerdoodle cookies, to candy flavors like licorice and chocolate, to energy drinks, soda pop (along with fizz) and mixed drinks. These were all there to help keep me away from those dreaded cigarettes, and they worked! Even now, this fruit-stripe-gum flavor brings me back to the 90s, keeps tar and carcinogens out of my body and doesn’t lose its flavor after a few chews (unlike the inspiration for the flavor)! Now I find myslef less depressed, more energetic and even much more social after finally cutting cigarettes completely. I honestly owe my life to e-cigs and no longer dread a very painful death at the hands of lung cancer. Though, if it becomes harder to obtain e-juice that I enjoy, or prices jump from some sort of tax that I can simply no longer afford, or if e-cigs are simply banned… All this progress against an extreme addiction will be lost and all I’ll have to look forward to is a hospital bed, radiation and pain. Please do not regulate e-cigs or e-juice. Let the consumer and the civil law system decide who is and is not worthy of our money. Thank you for your consideration. Robert