I am a 38 year old male that started smoking at the age of 12. I grew up in NOLA LOUISIANA and as a young adult I found myself smoking a pack or more of cigarettes a day depending on the many epic nightlife activities I participated in on a weekly basis. As I got into my thirties I began to notice the health effects that cigarette had began to cause on my body. I tried to quit many times using nicotine patches and other means with no permanent success. Every year I would have to miss work during the winter cold and flu season because I would get so sick from sinus infections 2 or 3 times a year. I couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs without losing my breath on a good day. It has been almost a year now that I have been off of cigarettes and I actually avoid being around them at all now because I started vaping. I smoked over a pack a day for twenty five years and was able to immediately quit (same day) by purchasing and using my first vaporizer (ecig). Last year was the first year I wasn’t sick during cold and flu season. I don’t get shortness of breath at all no matter what I’m doing. I started at 24 mg nicotine and now I only use 3mg and I don’t even vale as much as I used too. What morons can argue with the fact that ecigs are an amazing alternative to smoking and are saving lives like mine every day. You politicians are not helping anyone with your attempts to line your greedy pockets at our expense. All yall do is F things up for people trying to better themselves. I have over 1000 dollars invested in the last year on vaping equipment and probably another 1000 on e liquid. Guess what, I’m not done buying it yet either! I just bought 2 Atlantis triton tanks, I have a v1, v2, kanger sub tank mini, a delta2, an arctic, 3 aspire nautilus mini that I have given to adult friends to get them off smokes, an evic Vt with a mega tank, Eleaf 30 watt 2 Eleaf 50 watts an aspire sub ohm battery and I roll max vg on all my liquids now. I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll vape your house down. My next purchases will be a velocity RDA and whatever the baddest 200 watt temp control device on the market at that time. Got a lot of my info about vaping from indoor smokers and epic ecig reviews on you tube. Also rip trippers, twisted 420, Tia vapes, the vapor trail. Vaping is the most important life changing contribution to my life since the iPhone.