I am a 40 year smoker who has not been able to quit. I have tried nicotine patches, gum, cold turkey and these were unsuccessful. I am a retired Army veteran of 22 years service who can remember when we we received cigarettes with our meals in C-Rations. Smoke em if you got em was the command from the Drill Sergeant when we were allowed to take a break during training. Now the one product that has helped me to lay down the cancer sticks is under attack by the FDA just because they are pissed off that they were not allowed to control it’s distribution. I have been using e-cigs for over five years and have reduced my nicotine level from over 24 mg to 5 mg in the e-liquid I use. Those who have never smoked cannot know the degree of withdrawals associated with nicotine cessation. I would be so nasty I couldn’t stand myself when I would try to go cold turkey. As far as second hand effects do this simple experiment. Take a puff off a tobacco cigarette and blow it out into a white tissue, now exhale the e-cig vapor into a white tissue. There is a great difference. Since I have been using e-cigerettes my health has drastically improved. I can run up the stairs at work where I used to have to stop part of the way up to catch my breath before. I no longer cough and hack up yellow phlegm that looked like my lungs were being coughed up. It makes me sad that the agency responsible for scientific evaluation of health products for this country is so petty that they would fight to restrict a product without empirical evidence. Yet release products that are killing people. I am and will always be an avid supporter of the e-cigarette. I have evidence in my own life of the benefits. Consumer Reports published an opinion on e-cigarettes and I have lost faith in their legitimacy as they simply republished unfounded BS in it.