heh

Reality does say it's an electronic
cigarette.
It doesn't mean it's as harmful as tobacco cigarettes, it just means they're used as, and mimic, cigarettes in a safer manner.
Now, trying to shove these new electronic cigarettes into lawbooks that were written in their absence may require a paragraph for themselves, but removing the word cigarette is not in line with reality, much to our benefit.
Had electronic cigarettes not been invented, ... let's say they invented a nicotine device instead. It looks like a balloon, and everytime you need a whif, you turn a knob at the tip and it releases an invisible nicotine gas, you then move your head into the gas and inhale... I would have never bought it. People buy the e-cigs because they're cigarettes--of course they're safer and electronic, change the fact that they're cigarettes, or legally change the word cigarette to device, and you can run into legal troubles that Congressionally established laws protecting cigarette users can no longer be of any avil for defense.
Taken one step further, the FDA could soon thereafter possibly require the electronic
cigarette to get rid of the fog and the appearance of a cigarette, and cause it to end up looking like the balloon or a new device.
But that's my opinion.