It all started with dragons… yes dragons. I grew up in the late 80’s early 90’s when fantasy was a big part of the silver screen, and so were fire breathing, smoke blowing winged lizards. I was impressed by these fantasy creatures so much that toys and stick on tattoos of these beasts were not enough… The first time I saw some one french inhale a cigarette I was about 7 years old, and I thought that it was the coolest thing ever… it reminded me of a dragon. Fast forward 8 years later and here I am working at a grocery store as a cashier. Every once in a while I would run and grab a pack of cigarettes out of the locked cabinet for a customer. It didn’t take long before i would grab a pack for myself. The smoke play enticed me… for 12 years there after. I smoked a pack and a half a day. My fingers were yellow from the nicotine stains and I couldn’t even ride a bicycle too long without a stop for a coughing fit and sometimes to vomit from the coughing. The windshield of my car was less than transparent from the build up of tar and that all wasn’t enough to make me quit, or even entertain the idea. It wasn’t until my first son was born did I stop and think about what smoking really did to my body and the bodies around me. Did my infant son really deserve to inhale second hand smoke? Or absorb the nicotine from my clothes through his soft new skin? Of course not. I have been vaping now for over a year off of a mechanical mod and rba. I can run with ease of breath. My car doesn’t have windshield residue. My fingers don’t change color. And my son won’t have medical problems because of second hand smoking. The e cig has been a blessing to my health and has bestowed a healthier environment for myself and my family in countless ways. That is my testimony.