I am an owner of an e-cig establishment. Every day I hear the compelling stories from my customers on how vaping has changed their lives. Just today, a gentleman came in and told of how he went to his doctor and they did an xray of his chest and the doctor said, ??Keep vaping?! His lungs were the best ever. This was a man that smoked 50 years! Daughters stop by and say, ??Thank you for helping my Mom stop smoking!? People that lived their lives using inhalers??they don??t have to anymore. Marriages that were saved because the non-smoker was going to leave because of the horrible smoking habit of the other. How can you say vaping is detrimental and should be classed the same as tobacco? Have you ever smoked? Have you ever tried vaping? Millions of vapors can??t be wrong! So many customers tell us that their doctor said to stop smoking and vape instead. We strive every day to assist people that have a vulgar and dangerous smoking habit and lead them down the path of a healthier lifestyle. We are educated enough to know that there are some systems out there that carry some dangers. We don??t and won??t sell those systems. Understand and know that there are Vape Shops that won??t put their customers in harms way. There is the right way and there is the wrong way. Leave the ones that are here to HELP people and not capitalize off of a widget. We are here to assist people that need special help in fighting illness and addiction from deadly cigarettes. We supply jobs and pay taxes that help pave our roads and build new schools. We are here for the right reason. We will not make billions of dollars. We will not own part of Wall Street. We will not be the CEO for a Fortune 500 company. We are the little guy that makes our country great. We wake up every day knowing that today we are going to improve someone??s life. Someone is going to breathe better, walk a flight of stairs without losing breath, and not spend the day coughing due to cigarettes. They save money so that the savings can be generated back in to the economy. Who is going to assist customers that need help with their E-cig or liquid? Who will be there to help them with stepping down on milligram strengths so they eventually put the E-cig down as well? Will that convenience store clerk know or even care? We spend countless hours with our customers and work with them to achieve their goal. Getting off cigarettes and working their way off nicotine as well. Some of us have put our life savings up so that we can make a better future for ourselves and others. Vaping has changed my life as well as millions of other people. No cigarette company has done anything to assist us in a healthy direction. Why would they? We however are there to help our customers get off cigarettes and nicotine. So now, instead of helping our fine people of this country like Mom??s, Dad??s, Military personnel, Doctors, Lawyers, Police, so many other people, let??s shove them back in the direction of Big Tobacco. The small businesses will be charged such a ridiculous amount of money to try and stay in business that it will be impossible. This is taking away the CHOICE for the people of The United States of America. This feels like a monopoly. We take this industry very serious. We understand that people are skeptical. They are afraid to give up what has had them so addicted, for most, many decades! When they see our product and hear that we are here for them all the way through this venture, and we are going to help them step down from nicotine, there have been MANY tears of relief. Can big Tobacco say that? I googled ??how many deaths a year from cigarettes? Half of cigarette users will die because they smoke. Six million people die every year because of tobacco. This figure includes five million smokers, but also about 600,000 non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke. It is expected that, without any action, eight million people will die annually, by 2030. American Cancer Society | Global Tobacco Control www.cancer.org/aboutus/globalhealth/tobacco-control American Cancer Society Enough said? Should be. Candi Johnson