Just back from a great jaunt involving 4 nights in Vegas, then a tour around California ending in San Francisco. I haven't given up the cigs, was down to 4 a day. I bought a carton in duty free thinking it was gonna last months... yeah, right. I blame Vegas. Anyway, here's a lengthy post about what happened.
So, in Vegas you can smoke many more places than anywhere I've been in recent years. Well, most casino/hotel public areas, and the dive bars we decided to frequent! That hooked me back in to the analogs to some extent, but I decided to switch to vaping while playing 1c slots on Fremont Street. Man, I was getting some nic highs, bouncing in the seat as I gambled my life away. Actually I chucked away about $11 total, heehee, but it was all about the fun, not winning. In the Four Queens, not one person commented, though I was so busy on the slots (and 'merry' on Miller High Life) that I may not have noticed!
On Fremont Street there was a Smoking Everywhere stand. Ho ho. I decided to have some fun and strolled up with my penstyle. The guy saw I was kitted out already and tried to sell me a case. I said I didn't need one, and he insisted, so I sighed, took apart the penstyle and said "That will not fit!". He tried, then asked why the e-cig was so big. I replied that it's 'cos it's powerful! Had a quick vape-off that I won hands down, and a bystander asked where to get one. I told him in a garbled way to look at ECF, but by now both my boyfriend and the smoking everywhere guys were eager for me to leave - damn! Hope he got the message OK.
I couldn't help but spot the irony of selling a product named 'Smoking everywhere' in a place where there are possibly fewer places you can't smoke than can, tee hee!
After Vegas, on to California where I dreaded being cast out for sneaking the odd cig. Indeed, at our first rest stop some woman in a car stared at me crazily when I lit up. Oops. No ashtrays anywhere, eek. However, later on at the hotel in Fresno, a fellow tour-mate smoked his pipe around the pool so I joined in. Safety in numbers. I switched to the penstyle later and got favourable comments from all, mainly non-smokers - yay!
After this things went pear-shaped and the analogs took over, I'm afraid. I got a big shock in Sonora. There was a - gasp - smoking-permitted bar. Like, 2 bars in the whole town, and one was old-skool smokey hell. How long has smoking been banned in CA now? You wouldn't have guessed it! Long story short, CA seemed to accept smoking on the whole far more than the UK. I even spotted a seperate smoking room in a bar in San Francisco, and there was far less of this no smoking near building entrance stuff.
Anyway, lots of damage to undo here, I need to get back to vaping ASAP!
So, in Vegas you can smoke many more places than anywhere I've been in recent years. Well, most casino/hotel public areas, and the dive bars we decided to frequent! That hooked me back in to the analogs to some extent, but I decided to switch to vaping while playing 1c slots on Fremont Street. Man, I was getting some nic highs, bouncing in the seat as I gambled my life away. Actually I chucked away about $11 total, heehee, but it was all about the fun, not winning. In the Four Queens, not one person commented, though I was so busy on the slots (and 'merry' on Miller High Life) that I may not have noticed!
On Fremont Street there was a Smoking Everywhere stand. Ho ho. I decided to have some fun and strolled up with my penstyle. The guy saw I was kitted out already and tried to sell me a case. I said I didn't need one, and he insisted, so I sighed, took apart the penstyle and said "That will not fit!". He tried, then asked why the e-cig was so big. I replied that it's 'cos it's powerful! Had a quick vape-off that I won hands down, and a bystander asked where to get one. I told him in a garbled way to look at ECF, but by now both my boyfriend and the smoking everywhere guys were eager for me to leave - damn! Hope he got the message OK.
I couldn't help but spot the irony of selling a product named 'Smoking everywhere' in a place where there are possibly fewer places you can't smoke than can, tee hee!
After Vegas, on to California where I dreaded being cast out for sneaking the odd cig. Indeed, at our first rest stop some woman in a car stared at me crazily when I lit up. Oops. No ashtrays anywhere, eek. However, later on at the hotel in Fresno, a fellow tour-mate smoked his pipe around the pool so I joined in. Safety in numbers. I switched to the penstyle later and got favourable comments from all, mainly non-smokers - yay!
After this things went pear-shaped and the analogs took over, I'm afraid. I got a big shock in Sonora. There was a - gasp - smoking-permitted bar. Like, 2 bars in the whole town, and one was old-skool smokey hell. How long has smoking been banned in CA now? You wouldn't have guessed it! Long story short, CA seemed to accept smoking on the whole far more than the UK. I even spotted a seperate smoking room in a bar in San Francisco, and there was far less of this no smoking near building entrance stuff.
Anyway, lots of damage to undo here, I need to get back to vaping ASAP!
