I started smoking at age 15 in 1985. I quit for a brief period of about four years, and picked it up again after the birth of my second child. Since that time, despite multiple efforts with various nicotine replacement therapy strategies (lozenges, patches) and trying to quit cold-turkey, I have been a pack a day smoker. I currently have a 20+ pack-year history. I got to the point where I had a chronic cough, sleep apnea, severe snoring, regular respiratory infections and finally recurrent dental abscesses. None of these problems assisted me in trying to quit smoking. Finally, in about April of 2011, a friend gave me a disposable e-cigarette to try. It was awful, so I tried another brand, and then a third, over the next two months. On that third brand, after several months of only smoking tobacco when I was out of the special cartridges, I was able to completely quit tobacco. I have not had any tobacco products since December of 2012. All of my smoking related symptoms of ill health have resolved or improved drastically. Please let me be clear on this: Nothing else has worked. Not antidepressants, not sedatives, not patches or gums or lozenges or therapy or any other strategy. Moving to light cigarettes was not successful. Cutting back or rationing cigarettes was not successful. Price hikes and being too poor to buy my own cigarettes was not successful. The only thing that has worked has been the vaporizers. I started with the cigarette-style ones with the replaceable cartridges, and I am now on a different style that allows me to refill the tank with the flavored e-juice of my choice. I have managed to cut my nicotine consumption in half, and I expect I shall be able, over time, to reduce it even further. Without this product in place, I will absolutely go back to smoking. The reduction in harm is not only clearly visible in my own health; it is noticeable in those I live with. Those little dust allergy coughs have stopped. Respiratory infections do not happen as often. Pulling these products from the market, or driving the prices up artificially, will have a definite negative health impact on not only myself, but everyone around me.