E-cigarettes: Public health hazard or key to quit smoking?

[SMOKIE]

Scientific studies showing that electronic cigarettes actually help people quit smoking are few and far between. But that isn't stopping many smokers, as well as a few experts, from giving e-cigarettes the benefit of the doubt.

A new controversial opinion piece goes so far as to suggest that e-cigarettes could bring about the "demise" of traditional smokes, and save thousands of lives in the process. The only thing holding these smokeless devices back from much wider use is that people know they aren't regulated, and so some are less likely to use them, according to Dr. Nathan Cobb, assistant professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care at Georgetown University School of Medicine
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/17/e-cigarettes-public-health-hazard-or-key-to-quit-smoking/

 

[RMarcusY]

I smoked for over 45 years. I have use drugs, patches, gum, hypnotized, cold turkey, getting jobs that didn't allow smoking, you name it I tried to quit using it.
Drugs: ended up in the ER twice
Patches: made me sick on day 3 every time
gum: had to spit it out
No Smoking allowed jobs: learned to hide. I even got a job driving truck hauling explosives.
Hypnotized: three times, every time I had a cig on the drive home.
Cold turkey: never made it past noon
Smoke cigs that I didn't like: thru away and got some I did like
early cig-like vapor: didn't like the taste and ended up throwing away
Smoktech tanks and a nice cinnamon flavor: I quit smoking and have lowered my nicotine down to 0mg and have no desire to ever smoke cigs again.
The government doesn't want smoker to really quit, because they will lose a very large amount of tax money, so they don't want vapor to be endorsed as a smoking aid, because IT WORKS.