A guy named Terraphon at a video game website (*blush*) turned me onto them. As long as we don't find out that these things give you ... tumors and make your ears bleed, I owe the guy a lot.
I was searching for smokeless ashtrays, and somehow stumbled across a site for an electronic cigarette. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the particular brand.
Of course, I had never heard of an electronic cigarette, but decided it was interesting, so I dug a bit deeper. The thing that sold me on the idea was Leaford's video review of 5 different types of e-cigs. Holy moly, I couldn't believe it . . . those things were actually putting out tons of vapor!
The funniest thing (well, at least to me) is when I heard that Leaford learned about e-cigs when he was searching for information on smokeless ashtrays. It appears that I'm not alone.![]()

Needless to say, it was garbage from the get-go. But I didn't give up and found this forum. And the rest, as they say, is history.