The science about the harmful effects isn't in yet but no one questions the fact that they are much safer than real smokes.
Many people have used them to help them quit smoking no doubt.
Here's the fucked up thing about ecigs - it's skyrocketing popularity among kids is a gateway to nicotine addiction which leads right to smoking, threatening to reverse the declining smoking rates among teens.
Ecigs are ad sponsored by google - mail order legal on the internet - commercials and ads are all over TV and the internet - kids can buy them in stores (in some states)..marketing is targeted at kids with flavors such as cherry, strawberry, vanilla and cookies and cream milkshake.
Time to clamp down hard and regulate them exactly like smokes?