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First, the market drove the popularity of e-cigs. They were basically regular, and menthol. The trouble started when they started offering everything from Tropical Oasis to mango-pineapple to Plum-flavored. (I still have a few packs of MarkTEN cartridges around here. They went out of business this year due to regulation and market competition.) Then the feddle and state gummints stepped in and decided to regulate them until there were only three or four (Juul, nJoy, Blu, Vuse) that you could buy OTC at any convenience store. The weird-shaped ones, like some sort of alien artifact. You can’t find the old-school ones. I’m not talking about those hookahs that can be juiced up with THC or one of a thousand other flavors and strengths that you go to a smoke shop to get; I mean, the battery/disposble cartridge kind, that looked like a cigarette. You can’t find them anymore except as a disposable. I’ve got a nice e-pipe - as in, Grandad’s old-fashioned briar pipe, wood-grain and all - that I get custom juice for. Virginia gold tobacco, bourbon, apple, cherry, applejack, champagne, those sorts of flavor combos. I have recipes that taste like Borkum Riff. Mark my words - they’ll regulate vaping in general right off the market, and my e-pipe juice will bcome illegal to sell via the Internet. Because that’s what politicians do. If these little f*ckers want to make themselves sick, they can go back to eating Tide pods. I kicked a 30 year habit and started with e-cigs seven years ago with my doctor’s blessing. If people are puking their organs up because they’re huffing 500 hits a day with a 20% nicotine level, well, that’s just nature’s way of thinning the herd.