E-smokes gaining steam amid calls for a ban

(AP/Google) Galen Kipe hasn't smoked a cigarette in more than three months.
He couldn't kick his habit of 17 years with nicotine patches or gum. He finally put away his Marlboro menthols for good by swapping them for electronic cigarettes, which look like the real thing and give him his nicotine fix but do not contain tobacco.
"It's the closest thing to what I was doing before," the 34-year-old steelworker from Asheboro, N.C., said. Continued