Is there an alternative to cigarettes that doesn't contain nicotine?

Why is the FDA trying to ban electronic cigarettes that are SAFE but not the REAL cigarettes that cause CANCER?

• and KILL? Its been proven that tobacco cigarettes kill so many people and others around them. The FDA now controls the tobacco industry. Why havent they done anything to outlaw the real stinky cigarettes but try so hard to do it for the electronic cigarettes? The e-cigarettes has no tobacco or smoke in it. It doesnt have all those deadly carcinogens in them but it does have nicotine. It looks and acts like a real cigarette and its run on batteries. Its helped a lot of people quit smoking. Theres even been doctors approving of this. Why does the FDA want ecigarttes to be illegal when the real cigarettes stay on the market for people to buy? Why dont they want to ban tobacco and alcohol too? If we dont trust them to take out all the poison killing people out of the cigarettes, cigars, and snuff, why should we trust them with our food safety? What do they want!! Whats your opinion on this and why? http://reason.com/blog/2009/05/01/fda-to-ban-electronic-cigarett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaZ6abK2RrQ http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/risky-business/2009/4/16/possible-e-cigarette-ban.html

• Answer:

  I think the reason they are taking them out is that as soon as people stop using those things they go back to the real thing. How you may ask? You as a smoker is doing the same thing that got you in that mess in the first place. You want to quit smoking but somehow some way you are still finding yourself smoking. Not the real thing but something that resembles the real thing. Why not just train your mind into hating smoking? Now this is something that you can do; because, I have done it and it has worked for me for 10 plus years. Before I hated smoking I was a chain smoker and I started hating smoking and the smells of it soon I found myself stop smoking. But this e-cigarette does not help because you are still mimicking what you want to quit.