You are not entitled to anything just because you are
vaping instead of smoking guys.
Vaping should not be allowed in restaurants, bars, movie theaters, etc because it's annoying.
Abstaining from blowing out vapor in a restaurant is not akin to "giving up a right", it's a question of respect. If the police knocks at your door because you are vaping in your home then yeah, you are losing rights, until then, calm down or up your nic level.
To answer JohnnyDill : I'm on ECF because it's an information hub for vaping in general. The legislative aspect of ECF does not interest me in the least because it's mostly made up of people who think vaping is like drinking water.
I've been called a government infiltrator here, I've been called a spy, a liberal, a conservative, a republican, a frothing democrat, a redneck, a hipster, a survivalist, a fatalist, disinforer, I've been accused of sabotage and of course, since I've been here for a while and no one is abstained from Godwin's law, a nazi.
Mostly in the legislative and legal sections of the forum though, in other sections of ECF, it's all good.
All because when I'm in a restaurant I hate to smell things apart from my food. Especially when it comes in the form of clouds of anything coming out of someone else's face who is not even sitting at my table. When I'm at the movies I ....ing hate it when some ...... blows up a cloud that obscures the screen.
So yeah, it's a good decision to ban vaping in public places, and you're gonna have to deal with it because
if you're the kind of person who thinks vaping should not be regulated in any way shape or form and should be allowed anywhere at anytime, you are part of the reason why the antz want it banned in the first place. Have you ever thought about it that way?
This sort of shortsightedness is why I scoff at 80% of the vaping paranoia that I see in this sort of thread. The fact that I have to point this out to you as a brand new perspective is worrying to say the least. 90% of people are non smokers/non-vapers, they don't care what it is, and they don't HAVE to care either. If you talk to the proverbial antz you'll realize that they think e-cigs are actually pretty awesome, but that they are just as annoying as stinkers when it comes to public places. Antz don't HAVE to educate themselves on a subject they don't care about, and if you think otherwise let me bring you back to earth. Vaping is YOUR thing, not the World's thing. You are someone else's ant by the way, just so you know. We're all someone else's antz.
Our job is not to educate antz, our job is to enjoy our vape respectfully and responsibly so non-smokers/non-vapers have NOTHING on us. At the moment we are not doing that. At the moment we are arguing that because vaping is safer than cigs, it should be allowed to happen in places where plumes of airborne chemicals are not welcome. No one is debating the health aspct of vaping here, we are debating why it is disrespectful to do it in many many public places, and the safety of it has nothing do to with it. Keep your perspectives in check son, jeez.
Here's a fun experiment : Get out of the house every once in a while, go into a restaurant and blow your vape in someone's face while they eat. Then when they look at you like you have no respect, just whip out your smart phone and read them "Peering through the mist" aloud and see if they like you better.
Have a nice day regardless.
