Re: York Region users hail electronic cigarettes, Aug. 14.

After 40 years of cigarette smoking, I’ve developed emphysema.

The same day my doctor told me the news, I quit smoking and have been vaping ever since.

I feel, look and smell better and have missed out on more than 10,000 cigarettes during the past year.

Most places now want me to go back into the danger zone/smoking areas to vape.

I, for one, say nay.

Most folks don’t have even a clue of the benefits of e-cigarettes or the potential number of lives these things have and will save and improve.

No tobacco, no fire; it’s not a cigarette, period.

Coffee has a scent to it. It offends me and under scent-free workplace rules, it should be disallowed in workplaces, hospitals and public areas.

Maybe everyone who wants a coffee should go to the smoking area. After all, it even has an addictive component to it called caffeine and I don’t think anyone, especially children, should be subjected to exposure to caffeine.