Hi, I’m James and I’m 34. I found vaping around 3 months ago and I believe it’s saved my life. I know you may think this is an exaggeration, but please take a moment to read my story before making up your mind. I smoked between a pack and a pack and a half or more cigarettes for close to 20 years. I was diagnosed with asthma earlier this year and depended on an inhaler at least twice a day if not more often to manage the symptoms. I had never had any problems with breathing before and it scared me. I would cough randomly, sometimes having to stop in my tracks to cough up phlegm when simply walking or trying to do household chores, I would wake myself up at night coughing up phlegm as well. That’s what led me to the world of vaping… I had already tried all of the standard smoking cessation options. The patch, the gum, the inhaler, even Chantix with zero results nothing even came close to working for me and i had no idea what else I could do to quit. A friend of mine told me about vaping, I had no clue what it even was and little confidence that this would actually work when i had already tried everything else. I decided to pick up a ciggalike at Walmart a little over 3 months ago and it wasn’t horrible, it made me think that with some effort I could do this. I could manage my hand to mouth ritual, I was exhaling vapor that I could see and feel, it tasted like iced tea instead of the tobacco it claimed to taste like, but it was close enough and it worked fast and well enough that I thought I could finally quit. I picked up a small e cig mod and some e juice at a local store the next day and I haven’t touched a cigarette since. 20 years of smoking… I tried all of the other methods suggested and available to quit and e cigs were the only thing that worked for me. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of people with similar stories that I am sure they will share with you. This one’s mine though, one more person asking you to be reasonable with your regulations, to not put out of business smaller retailers, a few of which I now consider friends due to their help and guidance in teaching me about how to safely use these products. Don’t put my friends, who are responsible even without any regulations in place even when there’s no law saying they have to be out of business with mountains of paperwork designed to hand this entire industry to the companies that made every effort to kill me for over 20 years. Be reasonable, 18+? Fine we as a community do that already. In most cases we already as a community utilize child safety caps as well. You want regulations on packaging requiring warning labels? Fine… lengthy FDA application process for any product manufactured after 2007 requiring thousands of dollars of investment and tens if not hundreds of pages of analysis from companies per product? As I read it, that means per flavor, per size of bottle and per nicotine strength. Most of the retailers I know of have 20+ flavors, 4 or more nicotine strengths (including 0% nicotine) so people can step down their intake and they offer 2 or more different size bottles. Let’s do the math on that equation, shall we? 160+ applications per company, requiring full analysis of the product and an individual application each. Not OK, not reasonable and not beneficial in any way to anyone other than big tobacco. Don’t think that in suggesting what you did you have anyone fooled. Your suggested regulations only affect will be to put small businesses out of business and hand those dollars to large corporations. Considering all of the chemicals companies like Phillip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and others put in their cigarettes as proprietary flavors can I expect the same from my e liquid after these regulations are in place? I know what I am buying now. I get PG, VG, FDA approved food flavorings and USP pharmaceutical grade nicotine. By the way, I can breathe now. I haven’t used my inhaler in over 2 1/2 months. I no longer wake myself up coughing and I haven’t needed to stop to cough anything up either. I haven’t had to visit the doctor for bronchitis this past winter, something I had gotten way too used to used to while smoking. I only wish these products were available for my father who passed away 14 years ago from a heart attack he smoked since he was a teenager like I did. Hasn’t big tobacco killed enough people already?