Hello, my name is Robert and I started smoking cigarettes when i was 19 years old. I am now 46. after 10 years of smoking i was diagnosed with chronic bronchitis. i began a journey to quit smoking. i started cold turkey, and i couldn’t do it. i tried nicotine reduction filters, didn’t work. i tried zyban, patches, gum, chantix, yes, chantix too, and it didn’t work. My addiction to cigarettes was so ingrained within me that not even a mind-altering drug could get me to stop. the thing i realized each time i tried to quit was that there was always something missing from the cessation aids. none of them addressed the WHOLE addiction. the physical, mental and habitual aspects of cigarette smoking is very complex, not to mention that i truly believe that there is more than just nicotine in cigarettes that is addictive. i realized this when i started vaping. i started with an e-cig and quickly moved up the line to an APV, once i moved on to an APV and found flavors i liked i stopped smoking cigarettes OVERNIGHT. yes, overnight. i know i am still addicted to nicotine, but in just a few days i could breathe easier and all the other positive things attributed to quitting smoking began to happen for me. You may have noticed that i said once i found flavors i liked…the flavors are very important for me. i don’t think i’ve ever heard a person say i love the way this whiskey tastes..or…i love the way this cigarette tastes…we don’t drink or smoke for the taste of it, generally, some may, but we do these things to get a result. to get drunk or to cure a nicotine need. the flavors that are offered are attractive to me and that is why vaping has been 100% effective for me. to be honest though, i started with a plain tobacco flavored juice and that tends to be my main go-to juice. kind of ironic but even plain tobacco flavored juice is nicer, smoother and for me, bolder in flavor than a cigarette and is not gross like an analog cigarette. Vaping addresses all the complex aspects of addiction i mentioned earlier, the physical, mental and habitual. i don’t stink, i don’t have yellow fingers…etc,etc…all the same things i’m sure many of our stories have in common, and the most important common thing we have is that we no longer want to be held captive by cigarettes and die young. ok, there may come studies that say vg and/or pg can do this or that to us, but don’t we deserve the chance to decide for ourselves? you let big tobacco lie to us for decades and you continue to do so. you let alcohol companies advertise again with all their FLAVORED vodka’s, whiskey’s and beer’s. and you still don’t make them show their nutrition facts on labels like every other OTC product in the world, why? proprietary recipes? really? please don’t insult us. the FDA allows thousands of products to claim they do something for people,i.e. vitamins, herbal meds, protein drinks and supplements,diabetic otc medications, and all they have to do is say this product is not meant to treat, diagnose, cure or prevent anything…really? Look, i told my kids when they were old enough to never smoke a cigarette. i asked them never to call me a hypocrite because i smoked. i explained addiction to them and they understood. i asked them to never stop bugging me to quit and to never give up on me….and they never did and today i can say, with a quiet humility, that i am an EX-SMOKER and i hope i make them proud. isn’t that what this is all about? don’t make it more than it is, please. Vaping is the GATEWAY to freedom…not heroin. and if you think kids will be drawn to vanilla flavored juice, how about them being drawn to whipped cream flavored vodka? stop. i have 2 young adult children now and they have seen all this stuff and do not want anything to do with any of it. If you want to regulate this industry, i welcome this. i want consistency, i want childproof containers and warning labels, i want to know if what i am inhaling is as safe as it can be. i am not against regulations, i am against ELIMINATION. that is simply not fair and is obviously driven by big pharma and maybe big tobacco and SUPERPACS that are funded by un-informed and un-educated people. REGULATE, DON’T ELIMINATE!! today i am 65 days cigarette free, please don’t send me back. please. thank you for listening. p.s. please forgive the occasional CAPS as i am passionate about finding something that has helped me stop smoking and i really want to keep it. p.p.s also, i hope one day to be free of nicotine altogether, and as i have said here, vaping is the only thing i have tried that has worked, and i gave lots of money to all of the others, vaping is the ONLY thing that has worked, and from what i can see, i am not the only one. thanks again and be well.