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The zombies have attacked, infrastruture is down, there will be no more cigarette deliveries made.  How will you get your nicotine fix?  I recently started smoking electronic cigarettes, they are composed of a tip which you add a couple drops of nicotine infused oil to, an vaporizer which heats the oil into a vapor, and a battery.  The whole thing looks like a cigarette, smokes like a cigarette and provides nicotine like a cigarette (which helps my legs, I have RLS and PLMD which about 10% of the population has to some degree).

Smoking can also give away your position due to the odor given off, electronic cigarettes give off water vapor so they do not pose the fire hazard, but also they do not have the odor, as a result no one will be attracted to the smell of them, ensuring at least a little bit of safety.  There was an FDA report that came out, it said that some manufacturers (but not all!) contain some potentially bad chemicals, some contain nothing deemed harmful.  Some have twice the normal amount of nicotine, but most are accurately labeled.  The biggest complaint appears to be the flavors, they come in chocolate, cherry, vanilla and more.  The claim is that they only make these flavors to get kids to smoke therefore the entire industry must be banned.  Its insane logic at best.  Electronic cigarettes do not have a tobacco tax since there is no tobacco, they also do not have tar or about 4000 other chemicals that are present in regular cigarettes, while this is still fewer than normal air, things like carbon monoxide are not present which makes it somewhat healthier.I can stock up on the oil, 500ml bottles are not that expensive, and they appear to last 6-9 months based on my current usage levels.  Extra tips and vaporizers are a must, although in a pinch I can use anything that heats up like a toaster element.  As for the batteries there are a few solutions other than just stocking up.  The battery contains a switch that only activates the vaporizer when you inhale, so it is not just a simple battery.  The wall charger takes 6-24VDC which means that it can be powered by a hand crank generator, solar cells, windmill, or even a homemade battery.  The batteries will eventually wear out.  There are some battery replacements that instead of being a battery end in a USB jack, this means that I can connect voltage directly to that, and with a few spares I should be able to make them work for a long time, probably longer than the oil will last for.

The company that I bought them from has a varity of flavors, I ordered the camel ones and even though my bottle says its camel it really was vanilla.  A friend ordered menthol from the same company and got vanilla in a bottle labeled menthol.  This makes me think that they only sell vanilla.  The vanilla is not bad, although it is not what I wanted, but its good enough, so I am going to keep it.

All in all I do like the fact that they can be smoked covertly, they satisfy my craving, they help my legs without the parkisons medication that makes me feel ill, and I can stockpile without anything going bad.