Would you stop vaping if...

[AndriaD]

Pricing on approved NRTs is already so high that applying additional taxes would probably ruin what little market BP has for them.

That's the truth! I thought about giving the patch another try MANY more times than I actually did... but they cost more than cigarettes!

Andria

 

[MsAutumnWind]

The way I felt as a cigarette smoker is now not worth any amount of money; I would never go back to tobacco use regardless of price.

 

[Caro123]

nope, I prefer the vape, it tastes better and is much cheaper and I get a $68.00 government tax rebate each and every week that I do not smoke, of course I suspect the taxes to skyrocket on nic juice so if it happens in the next 25 years or so I will need to grow a few tobacco plants or better even still hope some smart person figures out how to teach me to extract the nicotine from my tomatoes and egg plants

 

[Martnargh]

Breathing easy, no more morning hocking and not smelling like crap has no price.

 

[BlackCat7]

Absolutely not... No way would I go back to smoking, but I might quit vaping if I found out it was really dangerous, or if I got pregnant

 

[Rowdy]

Sorry I am not sure how to make a proper poll so this will have to do.

With more people switching to vaping, less people over time wouldn't, be smoking. There would be a good chance that cigarettes may go down in price then? If they do would you be tempted to smoke and quit vaping?

I seriously doubt I would ever go back to analogs regardless of cost. I don't think I save any money as it is with my habit of buying every new gadget on the market....lol.

 

[Jorge22]

I can honestly say I'm never going to smoke again because cigarettes became something that doesn't please me at all. Now, if ecigs were banned, I'd be utterly frustrated but I wouldn't stock up or go into the black market.

EDIT: And... it must be the age or something but I just noticed I'd already replied in the previous page.

 

[Liskrig]

Coming from pipes, and cigars, I can't say that I would go back.

Ask me a month ago, and I would probably say that I would. I've since discovered NET juices and that has firmly made my decision NOT to ever go back to a leaf ever again.

 

[wheelie]

I spent 42 years smoking. I will never go back there. I hope someday to be vape free as well. Not today and tomorrow not looking good either! LOL CHEERS!

 

[EBates]

I'm in the process of winding down to 0mg. My intention is to quit, if possible. Haven't had or wanted a cig in 2 years.
With both state and fed taxes and restrictions getting nearer on the horizon I hope to be smoke and vape free by 2016. Plans are easy, execution is another story.

With a little luck I'll get to watch the BG gang when they lose taxes from both BT and vaping. Maybe then they'll notice that the FDA, CDC, ALA, et al, have lied the country into a hole, and our Precious Politicians have allowed it to happen due to their love of MONEY.

 

[SnakeEyes]

Nope, I barely smoked before I started vaping and would not go back if they were given to me.

 

[ENAUD]

I smoked for most of my life. If cigarettes were suddenly free tomorrow, I would rather keep on vaping.

 

[MiamiMom63]

No. I can't smoke anymore. It's disgusting to me and I much more prefer my butterscotch vape.

 

[stevegmu]

I smoke a few cigarettes on holiday a couple times a year. I didn't enjoy them the first year after quitting, but do now. Not US made cigarettes, though; they have an odd taste, it seems...

 

[C0NPAQ]

I have thought about the price issue, but not so much in terms of returning to tobacco. As mentioned in this post: Electronic Cigarettes yield 90.5% nicotine vapor compared to traditional cigarettes. | Page 2 | E-Cigarette Forum , cigarettes are roughly 10 times less effective to deliver nicotine than vaping, so it is unlikely that they will ever beat extracted nicotine in price.


I have calculated that at 100mg/day consumption (pretty much the maximum possible), a 1L bottle of 100mg/ml concentrated bulk nicotine for about 50 USD lasts 2.74 years, or 500 USD for about 28 years. That makes it 18.2 USD per year or 16.38 euro currently.

Sticking with 100mg/day consumption, it would take 4ml of VG/PG per day to mix 20mg/ml juice. That sums up to 1.5L per year (about 14 euro) and 42 L in 28 years.

A 32L mini-freezer cost 113 euro once, and currently 35 euro per year in power. So the initial cost of safely storing enough bulk nicotine for the next 28 years is about 600 euro (nicotine + freezer + int. shipping) for me. Running costs per year are then 35 + 14 = 49 euro for power and VG. Actual yearly costs are 65 euro.

Some say nicotine oxidizes too much over time, but I have smoked 2 year old juice and it works about right regardless. I think when frozen and when the bottle is never opened it will survive much longer.

 

[Tera Bailey]

No I dont think it would happen.

 

[Rriflemann]

At a certain point, in equipment preformance, and juice quality, Vaping became better than cigarette smoking, then as equipment/juice improved even more, vapeing became vastly superior to all forms of smoking, (fine cigars, custom blended pipe tobaccos) that point was 2013, NOW! Vaping is so completely fantasticly better than any other inhalible techniques. Vapeing is now in a class of its own, utterly incomparable to the old ways, that's when I became political active to defend vapeing from its enemies. there is no going back, there is nothing to go back to.

 

[Dixie1954]

I still dual use at least at the first part of a month. So getting them for free would save me a few bucks but as for totally going back to smoking - not gonna happen.

 

[coilburner]

no I wouldn't, I quit smoking cause I couldn't ride my dirt bike for 15 min without being completely out of breath.

 

[93gc40]

California is adding a $2 tax to cigs, so no.