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While the massive land grab for the still budding electronic cigarette and vaping industry market share continues, it’s easy to forget that vaping would still be here if the industry was not. Anti-vaping advocates would like the world to believe that it is no more than an industry designed to keep nicotine addicts ensnared.

Meanwhile, there exists a community that makes its lot in life to keep vaping alive — regardless of the goings on with the industry itself. They advocate for fair regulation and encourage current smokers to make the switch and ex-smoking vapers to stick to the change (a change that is very likely to save their lives).

It started with small online forums — E-Cigarette Forum being the most significant early player and one of the few that still remains strong. The electronic cigarette Reddit section is now one of the best places to keep up with news, products, trends, and community events around.

And of course there are going to be new entrants like Vapedom — a social network designed to host and facilitate communications between vapers. In less than a month, the network already has more than 2,200 members and plans to introduce mobile apps and reviewer partnerships. It’s anyone’s guess how efforts like this will turn out, but it seems vaping is fostering a strong connection between its community members.

In less than 5 years, an unknown technology has become a household name — and not entirely because companies made it happen. It was the community that got the products recognition in the first place. Do-it-yourselfers made e-liquids into more than just a nicotine fix.

And what’s promising about all this is that if electronic cigarettes were banned tomorrow (a terrible public health decision if ever there was one), the community would find ways (some legal, some not so much) to get them and share them. That’s what happens when you try to take something from individuals that has a net benefit and they truly believe there is no just reason to keep from them (just look at the legalized marijuana debate).