Tips For Taking Your E-Cig Through Airport Security

[Ponda]

JLeigh, I am also worried about traveling with it. Hopefully hanging out in this forum will make us both more comfortable with the idea.

My question is for the frequent flyers. If the TSA does stop you and ask you what it is, what do you say? What would you call it?

[ctruth]

Never happened to me. If it Did, I'd just tell them it's a penis enhacer.
Well, it is!

[PTJD]

JLeigh, I am also worried about traveling with it. Hopefully hanging out in this forum will make us both more comfortable with the idea.

My question is for the frequent flyers. If the TSA does stop you and ask you what it is, what do you say? What would you call it?

Its a personal vaporizer. half the time I ask the person sitting next to me if its OK to use without any problems.

[tmbrown327]

I call it an inhaler, a nicotine inhaler if pressed. I let them assume it's a medical device (I use a Janty Stick, so no confusion with a cigarette there). I put liquid in and get nicotine out, I don't have any idea how it works. It has a battery. End of interrogation. Of course, I know exactly how it works, but they don't need to know that.

[Ponda]

I like the idea of calling it an inhaler. It's a pretty neutral term, usually implying medical needs. Most people will not even think about it twice.

I would try to avoid the term "nicotine" since it carries a negative stigma. Perhaps something more medicinal sounding. I can't think of the right term right now. When I do, I'll post it for discussion.

[CloudBurst]

I went through Atlanta and Chicago this weekend and was never even asked. I put my juice in with some other liquids and my 510 loose with my PCC. The one time I was asked, I just said that they were ecigs, they looked at them and waved me on.

[indianwells]

I'm travelling from London Gatwick to Tampa at the end of the month on BA. Because it's a 7 week trip I have stocked up on atty's and batteries. I'm thinking of taking them all in hand baggage (about 13 510's), my thinking being I don't want my checked baggage ripped open. I'm thinking of keeping them in the boxes they were shipped in. Do you think that will be OK? I'd be devastated if they were confiscated!
It really does pee me off that I feel worried about taking something perfectly legal through security, surely it would be easy to simply educate security staff that e-cigs are fine?

[tmbrown327]

I'm going to China next month. I'm taking pretty much everything I can lug with me. I'll take some in my laptop bag and the rest in my carry on, hoping that if some jerk somewhere decides they don't like the look of something, they'll only get some.

Having said that, I've never been even looked at funny in all my other trips through security.

[anim8r]

I recently flew to CO and and I got pulled aside when I went through the inspection on the way there.

So, on the trip back, I put my Green Smoke accessories, extra carts and the batteries (each with a cart installed so it looked like an e-cig) in a clear plastic bag out in the open in one of the plastic trays.

They went right through. No questions asked.

[tmbrown327]

Well, I'm in China, no surprises or delays going through security or customs, had 3 Janty sticks in my carry-ons, an assortment of juices in a clear bag, nobody raised an eyebrow. Stealth vaped in my seat the whole flight (with stealth juice). Hope that doesn't change.