are on this i'm joined tonight by gregory connolly he's president of the american beeping association that's a nonprofit organization that champions the use of a tipping products to help smokers quit he's in washington d.c. tonight gregory welcome to the show let me ask you are you one of those former smokers who was able to quit by becoming a vapor. yesterday and an even more relevant i failed to quit in 2009 wasn't tobacco flavored cigarette it was only one year later when i was able to get a watermelon slavery baby product and actually disconnect the taste of tobacco and i became smokefree so your experience speaks to the incredible attraction of these flavored liquids the flavored liquids that were banned by new york today. yes and there are about 3000000 consumers in the united states who have switched to babying from smoking and the vast majority of them are using flavors despite the rhetoric despite the claims of people like governor cuomo and those funded by mayor former mayor mike bloomberg throwing around hundreds of millions of dollars and trying to eliminate they being ind