I am 25 years old and started smoking at age 15. Cigarettes are easy for minors to buy, and should be made illegal all together. If nicotine is the addiction, that is all we should be smoking (*vaping). I have smoked for the past 10 years, staring early on a pack a day of all popular brands of cigarettes, primarily menthol but I’ve smoked about every single product. At age 21 I quit cigarettes but started using Black n Mild cigars (non menthol) 4-5 a day until February of 2013 when my father (who hasn’t smoked in 20 years) provided me with a electronic cigarette, liquid nicotine flavor like a cigar, and a tank that holds the liquid. Although the taste of the cigar was not too enjoyable, it got me through the first day. Day two, i stopped by a local ecig shop and bought a menthol flavor. I stared with 24MG of nicotine, and have reduced that to 12MG or 6MG. This was done very easily. I don’t know the science of it, but i realized i didn’t need that much nicotine. As of February 2013,I have not smoked any cigarette/cigar product from day one, my first vape puff. Within weeks you can feel the difference of which is a healthier product. I thought my heavy breathing and wheezing was partly from being over weight, but soon found that it was all related to cigarettes/cigar. I now NO LONGER wake up breathing heavy, wheezing, or gasping for air. I NO LONGER have anything in my chest/lungs to cough up.I NO LONGER spit, I can taste food, and smell whats around me. I have not felt one negative aspect what so ever from switching from cigars/cigarettes to electronic cigarettes. I have converted 10 or more people from smoking cigarettes, to vaporizing liquid nicotine. I use menthol and fruit/drink flavors. If these were taken away i would keep using menthol, but non-menthol users would have it 100x harder, and possibly resort back to cigarettes. I don’t feel like a smoker anymore, i feel healthy…