Why is your Electric Salem Cigarettes Maker only for personal use. Listen to this story...I attended an Annual Convention of Tobacco Dealers a few years ago and talked to a representative of a tobacco company who makes roll your own cigarette tobacco and supplies. I asked him when his company was going to come out with an Electric Cigarette Machine that produces more than one cigarette at a time. This is what he told me. The major cigarettes companies have most of the patents on electric cigarette machines and the machines they use cost in the tens of thousands of dollars or maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars. They simply don't want a machine on the market that consumers can use to make their own cigarettes. They would lose tons of money if that happened. And besides, if you have a Electric Cigarette Machine for consumers that makes more than one cigarette at a time, then the federal government would want to tax and control the machines for the tax money. You would have to get a special permit, because the federal government would say you were a manufacturer. (A Federal license must be obtained for the manufacturing of cigarettes. The only exception is for a person who produces cigarettes solely for their own use. This license must be obtained from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. BATF.) That all made sense to me, so I didn't believe an Electric Cigarette Maker would ever happen. But now it's here. Watch it go to work for you! When I got my machine in the mail I opened the box, pulled the machine out, and started making cigarettes right away. But that’s just part of the story. Just like when I was a kid and I got a Christmas present, I wanted to see what was inside the box and play with it right away. Oh, I knew I was suppose to read all the instructions and directions first, but I wanted to see how the machine worked right away. I remember the night before Christmas one year, I had bought a new bike for my son and was trying to put it together. I decided, for once, I would read all the directions and instructions before trying to put this bike together. (I am famous for not reading the directions or instructions and just moving ahead and putting parts together and I almost always have parts left over.)