Many people worldwide are quitting smoking. Some use patches, some use nicotine gum and others are trying to quit smoking with the help of e cigarette . Even though e cigarette has been around since 2004 they are not widely advertized and not a lot of people know about it.

Commonly asked question is why e cigarettes not as widely used and recognized as other smoking cessation products?

Foremost e cigarettes are not marketed as smoking cessation products. They are marketed as a smoking alternative. E cigarettes are advertised as a cost saving alternative to traditional cigarettes. With the increasing cost of real cigarettes - in some states a pack of cigarettes costs as much as $10.  It is actually quite shocking how much money a person can save by substituting e cigarettes for real cigarettes even half the time. E cigarette calculator is used to come up with an amount to be saved.

You can try it yourself.  E cigarette calcular is available on

Once you calculate how much money you yourself will be saving by at least cutting down on cigarettes you will realize how much money government collects from the sale of cigarettes.

E cigarettes work and government does NOT want to lose revenue.

For example in Rhode Island goverment collects as much as $3.46 from the sale of each pack of cigarettes.

You can take a look at .   There you will be able to find how much tax is collected on cigarettes in different states.

E cigarette works and if it will be mass marketed and sold everywhere - can you estimate the amount of taxes the government will lose???