Hi My name is Connor, I quit smoking only 2 months ago. That’s not a long time but I see it as the hardest time, the initial period of waking up on that cold morning, pouring yourself a coffee, then not smoking. That was my biggest challenge and something I have never been able to get out of the routine with until I started using e cigs. Myself and my girlfriend have both quit together, in the past we have tried but failed after a day, or even a month, we always went back to them. E cigs are a great way and the only way i feel has allowed me to kick the habit and provide a real long term alternative to smoking cigarettes. It is clear it has helped many people, my friends, family and the stories/testimonies on here & the internet. My view on the government trying to regulate this wondrous weapon of combating smoking, is because the duty they get on cigarettes is a huge cash cow for them, their original efforts of trying to stop people smoking has consisted of raising taxes (more money for them) and the feeble solution of making the packaging plain and hiding them behind a shutter, no smoker I know has thought oh dear I cannot see them or they are not colourful anymore – I’ll have to quit. They do not want us to quit, and if they cannot ban e cigarettes (which I’m sure they already have tried to in various ways), they will tax it to the point it is either too costly of an alternative, or we are back to square one of lining their pockets from duty. They do not care about our health with regards to smoking, they make far more from it than they spend on treating smokers on the NHS. My salient point is, no matter what benefits and testimonies we bring to the table, no matter what research proves the safeness of these e cigs, they will always strive to regulate (tax) or ban them. We need to prevent this from happening to the one real alternative to smoking, so that others like ourselves can achieve what we have, the right to be completely smoke free. Thanks 🙂