Electronic cigarettes may have only been around for a few years but they have already assembled much more than a cult following. Smoking electronic cigarettes, or "vaping" as it's known to those within its growing community of participants is fast become a culture or a way of life in its own right.
Just who are involved within these communities? It is probably fair to say that most involved are ex smokers of traditional tobacco cigarettes or "analogs" as the vaping community call them. Those that believe that because of the absence of tobacco in electronic cigarettes, insist that they are a less dangerous prospect than the old analogs that they used to smoke.
E cigarette companies themselves are no longer permitted to market their product in such a way. In fact, there are a whole host of different legal problems associated with the marketing of e cigs in many different parts of the world but it doesn't seem to be slowing the growth of the vaping community.
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