Forget the "savings" from not buying tobacco cigarettes for a moment.
A three pack a day smoker until I started using e-cigs, I figure whatever the cost of e-cigs, it has got to be less than the cost Chest X-rays and the much higher cost of being told "I have very bad news for you..."
A friend let me try her Joye 510. I found it produced good flavors, great throat hit and chest-satisfying vapor.
Yeah the batteries don't run long, but the answer to that is to get devices with bigger batteries.
So I got a Silver Bullet, two Bartlebies and four adapters.
I am a Yank who lives in a lovely part of Mexico where e-cig supplies are not reasonably available. That fact caused me to order a six month supply: a major stash of 510 atomizers, some 801 atomizers, a few 901 atomizers, a bunch of carts, a selection of cartomizers, a wide variety of tobacco juices and a range of non-tobacco juices. For DIY mixing: PG, VG, ECOpure at various nicotine levels down to zero, and flavoring agents. I also ordered spare protected batteries for the SB and the Bartlebies, and a Pila IBC four-step charger.
To pay it forward, I also bought a couple of Joye 510s with a mess of their little batteries and accessories to return the favor and pass on the Good E-Cig News!
Total cost so far: $786.73
PS I know there are e-cigs that look like cigarettes. In an increasingly rabid anti-smoking world, it occurs to me that last thing I want to have in my hand (in public) is something that looks like a cigarette! That is just begging to get us banned further. My preferred public vaping package should look like an asthmatic's inhaler, maybe with a little adjustable speaker that could make that hideous whooshing sound... No mall-cop would then say "Sir you can't take your medicine here."
