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E-Cigarrete smokers are becoming like a club of fanatics. I'm a smoker, and the gusto with which people encourage me to switch to e-cigs I find disturbing.

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Hah, feels like it's been that way for a while now. Definitely strange to me, and I'm going on two years of only my vape after being about a pack a day. Imagine people treated patches or nincorette like they do e-cigs.

I used to smoke, now vape, and what I like most about it is that I both get my nicotine and I can also be very physically active. Physical activity is something that I could never do when I smoked.

Edit: And I do accept that vaping is probably not safe, and I'm cool with that. Not everyone has their vices but I have mine.

Agreed on all counts, my lungs definitely feel significantly better.

it's certainly a 'tribe' for reasons that escape me. i don't find personal identity in my nicotine delivery method but many appear to.

Maybe because smokers "secretly" carry within them for decades that they are knowingly killing themselves and feel helpless to stop?

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