See, the thing is it's not so much for me, obviously I have managed to do fine. But when I try to share the wonders of vaping to other smokers, they're definitely interested and supportive, but to this day they have not ordered, much less switched.
If I can lend them my batteries and give them cartos for about 24 hours each, they would be gald to try it, but the strange lights (and flavors too, btw) do not appeal to them. If I proceed and tell them that they need to order them and then take a sharpie and color them, or cut some rubber to put on it, and tamper with them it just stops whatever little progress there was. Many people I know have been smoking for plenty decades and ...well, right now it's important to increase the e-cig awareness and get them to as many smokers as possible and most importantly as quickly as possible. It's possible that there is a wide public perception that these things are new but soon they will be ubiquitous and they can just wait it out so that they don't have to order on line and deal with tampering them, etc. But they don't know that at the federal level, the battle just began not long ago, with an appeal. And various national associations are gaining cohesion and focusing on NY at the moment, they will not stop there, and will continue to ruin everything state by state.
So, to make a long story short, the more it mimics a cigarette in 'everything' (except in the harm of the old cigarettes, of course), the easier for smokers to get the final impetus needed to switch to the new cigarettes (the electronic cigarettes). Once having switched it is indeed a good thing that there are various flavors to discover, and lights for different occasions, but first they need to get them in the first place, and my concern is that I cannot easily order plain red and orange lights, not so much for me, as for the countless smokers that I know.
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