I am a 53 year old grandmother from Washington State. I smoked for 36 years. I tried the patch, but it gave me a skin rash, and did not prevent me from smoking by day. I hate all gum, so never tried that. My daughter, a non smoker, got me a gas station cheap e-cig in June 2013, and it was an instant epiphany, but I waffled back and forth between these and real cigs for 6 months. Then, in Jan 2014 my son, also a non-smoker, got me a more expensive and effective e-cig. I only waffled for about six weeks after that – one reason was I had to ask the local vendor to replace a faulty battery in Feb – which he did at no cost – and as of mid-Feb, I quit waffling, because the real cigs tasted worse and worse compared with my e-cig. So completely tobacco free for about 6-7 weeks as of this testimonial, and no urge to go back. I am for regulation, but e-cigs should be judged on their own merits, and NOT equated to tobacco products, which are proven to be far more harmful, and which I think the backlash is against how long we did get fooled by real smokes, but they are NOT the same thing. I breathe better, my daughter doesn’t shy away from me when I sit next to her, and think how many lives e-cigs are saving every day while everybody argues. Why don’t we attack REAL tobacco cigs, completely legal, that zealously? We KNOW what they do! I know e-cigs have saved my life, and weaned me from an awful habit I could not escape in any other way. Don’t take away our lifeline! (And even if there are taxes, they should not be sin taxes.) In parting, I think never smokers are more tolerant and less strident than reformed smokers who quit cold turkey; just an observation. Test e-cigs, post the results, and tax and regulate them based on how harmful they’re NOT. No false equivalency to real cigs based on