I started smoking at 18, like a good boy. Bought a tobacco pipe on my birthday, and loved smoking it around campus. eventually the pipe led way to cigarettes, so much more convenient. For two years I lived under the spell of tobacco, smoking everything from Dunhills and Nat Sherman’s to Marb Reds and Lucky Strikes. Eventually though, I could feel my lungs taking the toll. I was coughing in the morning and my lungs just felt like hell. When my mother quit it was the last straw: if she can quit after decades, I can quit after just two years. I stopped that day and haven’t had even one puff of that poison since. I’ve been tempted but as soon as I have my e-cig to my lips, that temptation is gone. I would not have been able to quit without it, and I love it to this day (about 1.5 years later). My lungs feel immensely better, I don’t smell like an ashtray and I can never see myself going back. However, when I see things like what happened in my town (Mankato, MN banned indoor vaping, I fought against it and spoke to the council personally) and whats happening in our state capitol and then with the FDA’s admitted overreach it scares me. Now in my town I have to stand outside and breathe secondhand smoke which is proven to be deadly. Soon I might lose the options I have for my e-cig because some guy at the FDA who says Chantix killing 500 people only warrants a warning label says so. I quit smoking, but I’ll never quit fighting for my right to vape and be healthy.