As your mother or father always said, nothing in life is free! Many unscrupulous retailers are offering free electronic cigarettes and / or ecig trial periods. always look at the fine print as many of these offers will automatically charge your credit card a hefty price for the unit (after a timeframe listed in the print)..

Plus, many reputable e-cigarettes are sold as starter kits for about $60 to $70 (plus shipping). Almost every electronic cigarette free trial offers will charge you more than $100 for half of the product found in a normal starter kit. To make matters worse many of these units do not provide the level of vapor or throat hit to truly help a dedicated smoker make the change from regular tobacco cigarettes to the ecig..

If you decide to return the free electronic cigarette "good luck". The best case scenario will entail long hold times on the phone, annoying sales people trying to up sell you and hours of your time being wasted. Worst case scenario entails fighting with the company to refund your money, placing a complaint with your credit card company and / or paying ridiculous restocking fee's.

You will probably be "automatically enrolled in other programs, one common "auto program" will send you prefilled cartridges on a weekly basis and automatically charge your credit card for every transaction.

Be Smart, read the fine print.

UPDATE recently some american based ecig suppliers (stores, shops, company) have made statements that their product is now FDA approved because they won in court against the FDA. It is also reported they make slanted statements that they hold an exclusive patent (rights, exclusivity) to cartridges and products in the USA. Any of the above statements are not true. The patent to ecigs is held by a foreign corporation and currently no USA suppliers hold any exclusivity to the electronic cigarette and / or cartridges.