I am in the UK and subject to the current nonsense going through the European Parliament at the close of 2013 which, if implemented, will see all the effective electronic vaping devices banned. I’m 55 and had been smoking about 20 a day, for 33 years, before I tried my first electronic cigarette. I had never tried to quit. The more the ANTZ sermonised, the more determined I was to continue as a matter of principal and free choice. However, I was conscious of people in my immediate surroundings and the fact that I had been extremely lucky, health wise. I also hated the smell and brown ‘gunk’ that accumulated in my house! After some internet research, I decided to ‘give ecigs a go’ out of curiosity and the thought that they might be perfect as cigarettes without the smell and smoke and reduce the harm. I received my first cigalike ecigs, with tobacco and coffee flavour cartos on 1.11.12. I have never smoked another cigarette! However, the 3rd generation electronic vaping devices I now use, look nothing like a cigarette! More like a silver replica of Flash Gordon’s rocket! Why? Because I quickly realised that, whilst the cigalikes were ok, I needed ‘something more’. A 3 month, fast lesson in vaping devices followed and after a very steep learning curve, I progressed to the kit I use today. My eliquid flavours of choice are vanilla custard, peach and raspberry cream (I hate the taste of tobacco now). All gone from purchase if the EU get their way- but not gone from my life! I’ve planned ahead and got enough to last my (hopefully) long and healthy life. So I’m ok, but I’m angry for the smokers who have yet to switch, how dare they be denied the choice that I had. I’m angry that so called ‘health professionals’ are manipulating data and downright lying to achieve their ‘quit or die’ message. One only has to follow the money to see the reason behind it, oh??and the fact that I bet they are massively p*ssed off that a consumer driven harm reduction product has achieved in one year, what they have not achieved in 10. The technology cannot be uninvented, any bans will simply see a huge black market emerge. For the first time in history, people will have to break the law in order to buy a safer alternative! Madness.