Students! Stop vaping in class!!!

[big_sizzla]

Alright, by now you've probably read the title and thought... "this guys an idiot! i got my e-cig to vape ANYWHERE!"

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BUT, theres a valid reason as to why i say this. Read on.......

I am a student of two post secondary institutions in Toronto: Ryerson University and Centennial College. Enrolled in two different programs simultaneously... which has allowed me to test waters at both campuses. I am a 21 year old male, who is trendily dressed, fairly well spoken, and a high academic acheiver. (Sorry to sound pompous.. but its important to the story.) As a result of my feild testing... I have found a pretty strong bias against ppl like me at BOTH institutions.

Adults who are unaware of the whole e-smoking trend, (especially professors who like to think they're smarter than you...) tend to think that your an idiot... regardless of who you are or your genetic makeup. Im a 3rd year civil engineering student at Ryerson, and second year architectural technician student at Centennial... and i've converted several of my friends to vaping, all of which generally fit my characteristics above, and they've felt it too.

Even though its safe to vape, even though it has virtually no scent, even though it shouldnt bug anybody... its still (or will be) labelled by most profs as a 'DISTRACTION', either to you or your peers that are dumbfounded by vapour pouring out of you nostrils while your avidly taking notes in your lecture.

What scares me is that more and more people will convert to vaping, (thats not the scary part,) and more and more people will start vaping in classes producing more nostril vapour pouring to the point where your lecture hall will be full of vapour.

Eventually some wise-a$$ professor will bring it up in a meeting, and they will be as harsh with it as they are with your cell phone ring on LOUD, playing an incredibly annoying and repetitive techno song while your in a lecture.

All i'm saying is.. VAPE WISELY, I know its legal to vape indoors, and if your like me, you probably got this thing for the sole purpose of vaping indoors... But profs and TA's will more often than not label you, and probably anybody else who does it during class as a 'class disruptor.'

If you vape in class, please consider taking a deep inhale after your drag.. so no vapour comes out on your exhale... or 'stealth vape.' Or go for a walk and vape your heart out in a hallway, or go to a washroom and take a nice, vaping leak!

Remember guys, its OUR responsibility to keep safe vaping possible in schools. And at colleges and universities world wide WE are the face of vaping. So please, dont be abnoxious with it.

Thanks for reading, anybody with me?? Please let me know.

[Luma]

I would agree with this. You shouldnt sit and eat a meal in class either. Same thing.

People just like to test the limits and some are just ignorant.

[Michelle M]

That's a very good point. Goes for not only vaping in class, but vaping anywhere where there's a high probability that doing so will cause someone to issue an edict outlawing it from that point forward.

As they say: Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.

Or something like that.

[big_sizzla]

Im glad you guys agree.. I hope this becomes a sticky so that people wisen up a bit.

[Kurt]

As a professor myself, I would not want people vaping in my class, or at least not obviously. Distractions are distractions, whether it is vaping, eating, talking, texting, phoning. Anyone using the excuse that it is "not against smoking codes" does not get the point at all. I love vaping, and would without a doubt not want crazy vaping in my class.

Now if someone in the back of the room was using PG, with less vapor, holding their breath and not allowing obvious vapor out, then it would be no worse than chewing on a pen. But if someone was flaunting it, regardless of the legality, then they would be given the choice to stop or leave. Its my class, my room, my rules. Period. Teaching chemistry is hard enough without yahoos with an agenda.

Perhaps someone could find a safe and effective vaping vehicle that produces no vapor, for such delicate times. Seems it would be a useful venture.

[DaMulta]

I would vape in class if I was still in school. I think I would stealth vape tho.....

Really I think people would get used to it after a few days. As long as no one was blowing out smoke rings across the room.....


Kurt There is one company that sells liquid that produces no vapor, but the name of the company escapes me right now.

[bornagainst]

I'm a student here in Toronto as well, and I stealth vape in class all the time....and not one person has even given me a look.

I'd never dare blow out a huge cloud of smoke, that's the work of a dumb ass.

I agree though....keep it subtle people.

[angelique510]

Originally Posted by DaMulta

I would vape in class if I was still in school. I think I would stealth vape tho.....

Really I think people would get used to it after a few days. As long as no one was blowing out smoke rings across the room.....


Kurt There is one company that sells liquid that produces no vapor, but the name of the company escapes me right now.

Modern Vapor has a "Stealth B&H" juice.

~A

[whistlrr]

This kinda goes along with another thread I just responded to, but 'on the other side' of it. (the other thread was about somebody by the description, nearly perfectly seeking an opportunity to 'confront' and turn a friendly educational session out of it (an opportunity they finally found in a Walmart).

I think first of all one needs to have the right sort of personality for introducing/educating the public about PVing. I really don't think a cocky wise-*ssed personality, one who 'struts' (most every human being knows and has encountered the type I mean and if you haven't, then check yourself because it might mean you might BE one then - not that the OP is one of the aforementioned types, just sayin') -- especially in a setting where a person may have already been pegged/identified as such

especially when in situations involving persons of authority (say for example, a professor holding lecture) -- is going not going to get the job done well at all, and is almost certainly destined to actually create problems.

I can see why the modest PV users wouldn't be so inclined to be hassled, body language, tone of voice (and even what you're thinking, if you think you're smarter than the professor and above it all' its going to be clear enough) while somebody who's whole mentality might be more "look, we're having a test, tests are stressful and I'm just doing my little thing here to get by and cope with stress so don't mind me I'm not here to cause trouble I just want to get through this" might be more readily overlooked and met with a bit of compassion/empathy.

Personally I never made huge plumes of smoke with my analogs either (I just smoked the things, no grand production involved, function over form I guess) so I don't know why I'd need to make a production with my PVs, so I don't.

I'm actualy kind of shy about it (as I was with analogs too since to be perfectly honest I felt like an idiot any time I had to reveal to the world that 'here, look I was such a dope that I picked up this idiotic [smoking] habit" -- I was ashamed of it.

I started out trying to 'vape' in public more but due to its shape and nature it still tells the world that I at least had a smoking habit, it put a strain on a long term friendship with the manager of a place I frequent, plus shortly thereafter I found snus, nasal snuff and have come up with a few even more stealthier ways to get my nicotine when in public (ways that mostly look like I'm treating a cold/allergies) and so I use these when out and about and I mostly just leave vaping for at home now.


Educating the masses needs to be done, but it needs to be done in the right manner and by the right type of person (which I acknowledge I'm not that type of person either, but there are those that are.. you just have to be insightful enough to know if its you or not).

[whistlrr]

weird double post thing happened and can't delete this one only edit it, don't know how the double posting happened, sorry