Congratulations! So you’ve made the switch from analogs (traditional cigarettes) and entered into the vast world of vaping. No longer do you have to roll down the window in the middle of winter to let that smog out or step outside after a huge satisfying meal. You’re no longer out of breath after extraneous activity and don’t reek of stink after a few drags during your lunch break. Fantastic! I’m excited, you’re excited, but we’re not all excited… Not everyone feels the same way as you do outside of your own home. As a community we must follow the basic rule:Don’t vape where you can’t smoke!

While Dr. Glantz's statement that few people have switched away from cigarettes or used e-cigarettes as a bridge to eventually go off cigarettes was not science-based, but pure speculation, there are now two studies which actually examine the trajectory of electronic cigarette and conventional cigarette use among a cohort of e-cigarette users. We are able to empirically examine Glantz's dual use argument and his claim that very few smokers are using e-cigarettes as a bridge to eventually go off cigarettes.

The second of these two North Carolina debates is whether or not to impose their current 4.75% general state sales tax on the electronic cigarettes themselves, but doesn’t collect the federal or state excise tax on the nicotine containing e-liquid as it does on other nicotine related products. At the center of this issue is the fact that E-cigarettes do not contain or burn any tobacco. Rather, e-cigarettes use batteries to heat and vaporize a nicotine containing liquid or E-liquid. It is because of this, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration or FDA has labeled these devices as “tobacco products” which are subject to the federal excise tax. If this legislation is implemented in the 2014 summer short session, the expected revenue that it is projected to bring in by fiscal year 2016 is around $5 million a year.

In a recent in Forbes magazine, Jacob Sullum reviews some of the evidence which demonstrates that many former smokers have quit smoking successfully using electronic cigarettes as a cessation aid. Sullum writes:

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