I've been grinning like a fool all afternoon and evening, ByStander1. I simply cannot believe this. My cheeks hurt, but my lungs don't. *confetti! more confetti!*
Almost 12 hours without an analog and I'm not panicky or anxious, itchy or rashy, and - if I may say so - I smell FABULOUS!
I hadn't heard about e-cigs before except on TV a couple of years ago. It was an ad with two guys in a car. One whips out what looks like a cigarette. The driver scolds him and says he thought he quit smoking, and then the pitch starts. The commercial was on a handful of times, then was gone. No more mention.
Smokers are treated like pariahs, the social scourge du jour. Made to feel like weak, yet malicious, idiots. I told one person they should be thanking me for keeping down their state taxes, fercrissakes. I've yet to read about a smoker beating their spouse due to nicotine intoxication, or leaving their families to live in a gutter and smoke out of a brown paper bag. Haven't heard of one kid hit by a nicotine-crazed driver. Yet, the drunk gets to drink in comfort, and the smoker is publically humiliated.
And then, when we try to quit,
insurance companies refuse to pay for Zyban, or for Chantix, or the patch - whatever might work. An item like the e-Cig, with good success with at least dramatically cutting down analog use, if not fully arresting it, is kept out of the public spotlight, villified (I've read some of "those" articles - pure pap!), and shushed. I think I know what's going on, here.
The states and the feds are addicited to smokers. I think it's high time they quit cold turkey.
/rant
