Hello, my name is David Rust and I’m from Ogden Utah. I was a smoker since I was 16 and started to smoke to fit in and eventually by the time I was 17 I was a half a pack a day smoker. I would find was to smoke rather that be to pan handle once in a while, bum from other smokers or dig I. Ashtrays, I was a smoker. When I was 18 I got a steady job and was abble to buy my own cigarettes and from then on out I was a pack a day smoker. I trued to quit when I was 21 and was successful for a month but then my grandfather became ill and I went down to s. George utah to see him in the hospital and that trigger me to start smoking again. A few years later I got a cheap e cig from a gas station and it was a cigalike kit back in 2010. Was not enpressed so I started back up smoking cigarettes. This year I got a new job after new years and when I got out of training and got my first pay check, one of my co worker’s considerd an e cig and I said nah I had one of those gas station ones a few years back and it didn’t work he told me to try his and be had an ego twist battery with a carto and was dripping since he didn’t have a tank yet. I took a few puffs and was in shock on how good the flavor was and the next day me and him went and got me an ego battery kit. I was still smoking cigarettes but notice I would smoke 4 or 5 that day then it was 3 the next day then within 2 week’s on February 22 2013 I crushed up my pack of camel blue 99’s and have not bought a pack since. I’ve smoked a cigarette out drinking sure but even then I can’t stand it. What I do know is that without e cigs I would still have poor health, smell like an ashtray, have yellower teeth and be sick with colds ever other month. E cigs are saving my life, talk to ppl more and be more social, feel like I’m helping a community, is a hobby for me, and I’m all around more happy for myself. Lastly I want to add that the only reason their is a ban on E cigs, is because the fda has cigarette company’s on their side that is making them rich. I don’t mind a sales tax on e cigs and I think they should be taxed a little more but in reason. We are all adults and American’s and should be treated as such.