After being harrased by the cops

[Sar]

.. just to add a little irony to this; my grandmother had severe arthritis and her arthritis tablets were all in childproof containers (as they all are). One of my jobs as a little kid was to open all of her tablet bottles for her and decant them into other bottles

I am sure you did that under adult supervision, otherwise you would have been eating those tablets like a candy, wouldn't you?

What child could possibly resist the taste of nice arthritis tablet?

[RandallFlagg]

If you get called out for E-smoking, and you avoid confrontation like me, when you get hassled about e-smoking just tell whomever is asking that it is a asthma medication dispenser (or something along those lines).. Don't admit its nicotine content, or similarity to smoking... Say its a discrete inhaler.. You cant prove it, but then again neither can anyone else.. I don't want to bring any negative attention to E-cigs, we will have enough of that once this product goes mainstream (like salvia-divanorem and its ... like effects)

Stealing a line from Dr. McCoy from Star Trek 4, tell 'em that you have, "immediate postprandial, upper-abdominal distention."

Cramps.

What're they gonna do?

[Angela]

I am sure you did that under adult supervision, otherwise you would have been eating those tablets like a candy, wouldn't you?

What child could possibly resist the taste of nice arthritis tablet?

LOL. Yeah.... sure. (It would seem that I had more common sense as a 5 year old than some adults have today! )

[mamu]

I haven't taken my screwdriver with me when I go out and about. My kids told me it looked like I was smoking something illegal - like I was smoking liquid weed hahaha!

I can see the headlines:

Grandma arrested for smoking liquid weed while watching grandkids at a local playground

[Paradiso]

BARD - What I am doing is lying. What dose it matter either way. The question of whether or not it is legal has been more or less answered. Why do I have to take the time out of my meal/date/movie/ect to discuss the moral and legal guidelines of vaporizing liquid nicotine where conventional smoking is not allowed. Its not my job to teach everyone, Its certainly not anyones job to tell me what to do.. So saying its medicine beiging delived shuts most people up, proving the biased opinion of smoking in the first place... Lying about what it is seems like a better approach that "its a E-cig and I can smoke it here becasue yadda yadda yadda " Im not a child and I do not appriciate being treated as one.. If you dont mind having people tell you what to do and how to live your life, get married. Regardless E-smoking is limited to the establishment that either will or will not allow it in THEIR place of buissness.. If by lying to some jerk-off lets me smoke me E-cig in peace ,then thats what im going to do... PS> I dont get some eliteist kick out of explaining my e-smoking habbit.. If I had it my way people would leave me the fu*k alone. Did I relly deserve condemnation for my comment?

Preach on brother. If you're ever in my neck of the woods, I'll buy you a beer or three.

[ramblingrose]

Sorry, but we live in a child-proof society. It is no longer about teaching kids about right or wrong, it is about shielding them from wrong.

Somehow many generations managed to survive childhood without the multitude of laws and contraptions our illustrious government has come up with in recent years to protect us. As CSN said, "Teach your children well". Our parents protected us, and taught us to protect ourselves.

With all the government interference, kids now have sex when they've barely hit puberty and find ways to make household items into dangerous drugs. So much for childproof.

Our government will never learn that people are, in most areas, better off with knowledge than with protective bans (umm, like for example e-cigs?).

[orlampagal]

I agree that he has to be careful, and I also agree with what the other posters have said regarding the court setting a precedence. Remember, 1 or 2 percent of the smoking population uses e-cigs. That is a very small number and places need education, not confrontation. I handled a similar issue at beef o bradys. I showed the waitress that it produced vapor and showed her all the parts and what they do. She said that it looks like smoke, and said that I must do it outside, which I of course did. While outside with the analog smokers, I showed them my 901 and explained how it worked, and drummed up some business for a few of our sponsoring suppliers.

This is definitely something that more people need education on, but it needs to be a positive education, not a traumatic one. I say for right now we all boycott Sonic and post that we are boycotting sonic on each forum and briefly say why. You can post a link back to the original post. I am going to post my boycott of sonic on my facebook.

Any other ideas?

[Tye]

Preach on brother. If you're ever in my neck of the woods, I'll buy you a beer or three.

Only if I can Vape inside! lol Thanks man

[theelectricwarrior]

I have to say that if you are on someone else's premises and they don't want you to vape, that's their prerogative and that you should respect that. It's going to take a long time until e smoking is seen (and proved) as something that's safe to do.

(Sorry if someone else has pointed this out, **** I'm just too lazy to read the whole thread)

[Sar]

I have to say that if you are on someone else's premises and they don't want you to vape, that's their prerogative and that you should respect that. It's going to take a long time until e smoking is seen (and proved) as something that's safe to do.

(Sorry if someone else has pointed this out, **** I'm just too lazy to read the whole thread)

The reason is often not that someone doesn't want you to be on their premises, but rather they think they have to kick you out. Remember when smoking ban in restaurants and bars started. Most restaurants and bars I knew didn't want that. Many of them would actually prefer to compromise and would have created smoking sections, but that was not enough. They were forced to do a complete ban of smoking. The rest/bar owners will get fines or lose license if they don't enforce the non-smoking ban. I think vapers need to show them that this is not a smoking device.