I've never read a report or had an intelligent conversation about e cigs where someone would say they are "healthy". Is it a "healthier" alternative than smoking? Absolutely. There is no evidence to deny that fact, and tons of evidence to support it. The e cig business is huge! Billions of dollars in 2013, as opposed to millions of dollars in 2012, and it's only getting bigger. All of the horror stories that are being reported by news outlets are funded and directed by both big tobacco and drug companies. Both of them stand to loose billions because of the popularity of the e cigs. Big tobacco wants the e cigs to be federally regulated in a way that only they can produce them to a standard set by the FDA. Drug companies want them gone because no one is buying their patch or gum anymore. Something is going to happen soon with the FDA as far as regulations go, and if e cigs are regulated to the point where the use we know and love now ceases to exsist, I'll express my disapproval by stopping all together. Big tobacco has lost my business forever, no matter what.