I started smoking at the age of 12. I quit at the age of 24 and it lasted about 10 mths before I found myself smoking again. At the age of 31, I was diagnosed with Arnold chiari and syringomyelia. I had 5 brain surgeries. I was in the hospital for about 3 months so I didn’t smoke for appx 8 months. Then I went back to smoking due to depression. During my smoking years, breathing was bad, always feeling tired, taste of food was deminished,very bad coughing and my family was always telling me I stunk like smoke and I was the last person who should be smoking with my illness. ( from all the meds I was prescribed I also gained in excess of125lbs). I knew I shouldn’t smoke, but I was addicted and it calmed my nerves. On February 28th 2012, I made a promise to my family, on my birthday march 1 I will quit smoking. The morning of my birthday I went to the gas station and purchased a logic e cig….( one of the best choices of my life). From that day until present I have not touched another tobacco products. I have found this wonderful life of vaping. Now, I can only tell you what has happened to me. Within 3 days of no tobacco products only e cig at 12 mg nic, I got my energy back, My morning cough has subsided, my taste buds came to life, my family says I smell wonderful now, and my whole family is so proud that I quit that deadly habit and not to mention expensive. The moral of this story is…. It would be a great injustice to the e cig/ vapor industry by the same rules and regulations that are set for big tobacco when there is no evidence of same health risk. I also feel, if the same regulations are applied to e cig/vapor industry as are to big tobacco, it would be a negative impact to any one looking to seek this alternative route.