I smoked American Spirit Organics until about 18 months ago, when the taxes got a double hit. I rebelled by switching to mail order AS ryo. Was happily rolling em, and The Pact Act stopped me. Switched to the cleanest pipe tobacco I could find, and continued. Started vaping 5 days ago.
What the pressures of no-smoking laws, and prohibitive taxation have done (that I was never able to do under my own steam), was to force me to find a nicotine delivery system that would be convenient and adjustable. I made some tobacco tincture a few years ago, but never figured out quite how to make it work.
Voila! The eCigs are brilliant. I don't seem to be tolerating the PG very well, but am experimenting with VG. I feel like I've got some daylight coming in here, and would never go back (have smoked a few cigs, three to five each day...only three today). It's no longer about the money. It's more about cognitive decline (apparent reason it took me years to even consider vaping ;-p)!