Hello my name is Sharon and I have had chronic asthma since I was a child. Asthma is a lung disease which I have been hospitalized for many of times especially when I was a child, I remember a couple times being so scared because I couldn’t get any air and my lips were blue. Anyhow I am not sure how I made the ridiculous decision to start smoking when I was about 13 years old but all my friends were smoking and so I started as well. Well about 29 years later in 2009 I was hospitalized for 12 days because I had pneumonia and pleurisy really bad, I now have a compromised lung and a lung disease and still tried and failed numerous times to quit smoking. I have tried chantix, nicotine patch, nicotine gum, nicotrol inhalers, the nicotine pouches and even chewing tobacco, desperate to quit smoking and using my albuterol rescue inhalers and others at a ridiculous rate everyday and still cannot breathe but still smoking. It was disgusting and crazy but still failed to quit with many attempts and terrified to die so young. It got to the point that I couldn’t even lay down because I felt like I was smothering. I tried the electronic cigarette but still wanted my cigarettes for almost a year and still miserable when I did smoke but I had cut down drastically. I was down to smoking one cigarette a day and every time I smoked that one cigarette I had an asthma attack and couldn’t breathe so I started getting into the liquids and different flavors more which I thank god everyday that I have quit smoking cigarettes and only use my ecigarette now because I CAN BREATHE!!! I can actually walk now because I can breathe, I can exercise and I seem to be fairly healthy now. Ecigarettes have literally saved me from dying a very young age and I am so thankful!!!! My quality of life is 100% better and if I would not have quit my doctor said I would most likely be dead by now. It has been a year since I quit smoking and I am so much happier and healthier. Cigarettes should not even be available. They should not be legal to buy and I believe the only reason they are is because the tobacco companies give our government millions or billions of dollars every year. This tells me the only reason drugs are illegal is because the government doesn’t get a cut of the cash. That is a twisted and horrible government. Cigarettes should be illegal and harder to get to at least try to save lives in the future. But instead our government is trying to ban ecigarettes. God really? Come on people we need to come together and stand up for what we see and know to be true.. Were suppose to be the Great United States but it is not true anymore. Things have to change…….. so many things…