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DON'T DO IT! DON'T DO IT! PLEASE! STAY OUT OF THOSE PLACES! TASTY STIMULATORY HAZARD!
E-cigs don't fill your lungs with carcinogenic burning vegetable matter (though I note that even non-burning chewing tobacco can cause cancer), but nicotine may not be such a great chemical in any case (e.g. it's correlated with Alzheimer's, though the evidence is contradictory) and e-cigs don't have that lovely fresh tobacco smell. They really are for nicotine addicts trying not to get cancer.
While I don't necessarily warn against nicotine I don't suggest e-cigs as a delivery mechanism. The rapid to-the-lungs delivery has addictive potential - nothing like a cigarette but still in contrast to a patch. The 'burst' of nicotine is also less useful therapeutically than the more mild but longer lasting effect of a patch or even lozenge.
Yes, as I said: the delivery mechanism (lungs direct to brain) is just like crack, and that's why you (or I, at least) crave the hit months after the addiction is out of your body. This is why they are for people who are already addicts but want to reduce the harm.