So-called e-cigarettes, or e-cigs, are a curious product. They are called cigarettes, but they don’t contain tobacco, and people who use them don’t set anything on fire–except perhaps the desire of neo-prohibitionists to regulate them as if they were cigarettes.
Have they been proven completely safe? No. But then again, we know that real cigarettes are harmful. If e-cigs, or electronic nicotine delivery systems as they are more fully called, can help some people kick the tobacco habit, the FDA and various state and local agencies should not attempt to regulate them out of business. After all, “if it saves one life ….” Right?