Hello, My name is Eric and I am a strong supporter of the e-cig and vaping. Vaping saved my wife’s life. I quite smoking using other means (smoke-away) but my wife couldn’t take it or any of the other methods like gum, patches and inhaler’s. She was a 2-3 pack a day smoker, had a nasty cough, could barely breath and forget going out for dinner or a movie. She is a recovering addict and alcoholic and she just can’t ever give up nicotine. Because of her addiction and alcoholism she had to seek outside inpatient recovery and we spent nearly 6 months apart and in that time I moved to a clean place, not filled with the smell of cig’s and smoke and all that. I got to the point where I could not be around the smokers and couldn’t stand the smell. So that move along with her recovery started my search for an alternative, one that would potentially work for her to not smoke or limit her smoking cravings. I did a ton of online research, talked to some people I saw who were using e-cigs and got their opinions, I stopped at nearly 20 different brick and mortar stores in my area and talked to the owners, employees and the customers about their experiences, what worked, what didn’t work and why. After all of that I came away very positive and knew that it was a real viable option. Fast forward to her coming home. Of course after being through that kind of chaos in our lives it was strained at best but I handed her an e-cig and told her that I would like her to give it a try, to please understand that it is part of my new life to not to live in a cig smoke filled house anymore. She tried it, she didn’t know what to think or feel for the first week and she would go between the e-cig and the real cig’s. I took her to the local vape shops and she tried juices from every place and we found flavors that worked. It took nearly 3 full weeks before she stopped smoking real cig’s but that is a very short time frame for a 2-3 pack a day smoker in my opinion. Since that time she has not had a single real cig, she hasn’t even had a craving for one. She loves vaping, she loves the freedom it has allowed her. She is breathing better, her cough is gone, we can go out to dinner and movies now and she stealth vapes to feed her need of nicotine. Yes, I know that it is not polite to stealth vape but when you consider where we were at before vaping, it is nice to go see movies and be able to see the entire thing without her getting panic attacks because she isn’t dying for a nic fix. Yes vaping has saved her life because now she has the energy, the ability to breath better, the ability to not worry about how she is going to get her nicotine fix because it has become increasingly difficult for smokers to have anywhere they can have their needs met without ridicule and without being outcasted to the back alley’s of buildings. She doesn’t chase clouds, she doesn’t do it for show. She truly and honestly needs her e-cigs to survive and I support her and e-cigs till my dying day. I don’t care the legislation, the zealots or anyone who takes offense at our choices in life because I don’t need them to approve or disapprove of my choices. I have the means, equipment, tools and what-not to make this a viable option for the rest of our lives and so be it if they think they can force me to stop what has saved my wife’s life. I vowed a promise back in my short term military career that I took to heart in my daily life and if I have to take up arms to protect my own rights then so be it, but I would rather educate the uninformed and push to the side the ignorant brain washed zealots who don’t and can’t comprehend the addiction in some people. One day people will remember that freedom isn’t free and that you have to take a stand against the oppression. If you would remember why anyone has ever left their homelands and settled in a free country then you will see it is always because of oppressors trying to control every aspect of your life. When do you finally take a stand against tyranny and oppression?