...please answer if you can? i've been researching them for a little while, just out of curiousity. i don't really need them or anything, but i really wanna try them to see what they're like compared to an actual cigarette. anyway, they've (ap has been reporting about the fda's concers) been saying that e-cigarettes have carcenigens in them, which cause cancer, but all nicotine has carcenigens in it, so why haven't there been any concerns for use of nicotine gum or patches? a lot of the videos i've been watching are about a year old, so i don't know if they've fixed the problems with certain ingredients, so if you know whether they have or not, could you tell me. also, everyone keeps saying that these aren't proven to help you quit cigarettes, but they're essentially the same thing; the nicotine, the method of ingestion, and i've heard the taste is similar too, but they don't have the harmful smoke, so why wouldn't you believe that they would help you quit? can minors buy these, since they don't produce smoke? i know they have nicotine in the, and i think there's a law against minors possesing anything with nicotine in it, but i haven't looked into it. would you happen to know if there is or not?