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Electronic Cigarettes MUST BE BANNED. Especially during this time of RECESSION, states (and the federal government) are not able to make their budget... smokers switching over to these vaporizing devices are NOT included under tobacco taxes. Also, pharmaceutical companies will stand to loose profits off their quit-smoking aids since electronic cigarettes have a higher success rate of reducing or eliminating regular cigarettes. Nicotine gums and such are very profitable because people have to keep buying them again given their poor success rate. Since people can continue to vaporize regularly while they slowly reduce nicotine, that separates nicotine from the oral fixation making repeat buys minimal. No one currently needs a prescription for nicotine right now, which should change so that people can support their local doctor's office to get a prescription. Obviously this will also impact tobacco companies, who risk losing their monopoly on nicotine, since that is really what people want when they smoke a cigarette (they aren't doing it for the smoke). And we all know health care needs to be better funded... we could lose that funding as fewer people find themselves being diagnosed with lung cancer and other smoking related illnesses -- chemo therapy is worth quite a bit and help our economy in many ways, a dramatic reduction could cripple our industry. And THINK OF THE CHILDREN! All these tasty flavors are obviously marketed towards CHILDREN! Even though children probably aren't carrying around 100 dollars for an e-cig kit to buy over a regular pack of cigarettes, it certainly sounds moral to say since one must over look the millions of lives it can save. So as you can see, there are clearly MANY reasons the FDA and states should ban these devices. We MUST get the word out about how bad these are now before they catch on.