Better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.
I made that mistake with the first business I started -- I went to the town and asked if it would be okay. Several months later they still didn't know the answer so when I started it up anyway I had already established the precedent of acceptance of their authority and they told me I couldn't until I got their ok.
I think it is worthwhile to consider that there are some other elements to smoking bans besides fear of second-hand smoke.
On the one hand are people who believe smokers are enjoying themselves and simply cannot bear the thought of someone experiencing a purely selfish pleasure. On the other hand are those who want smokers to be "punished" for their iniquity; and making them go hours upon hours without a cigarette in airports and stuff like that is seen to be well-deserved punishment that serves them right!
In either of these cases, the people will object to using an e-cigarette EVEN THOUGH it does absolutely no harm to outside parties.
Long before there was a body of research about the dangers of tobacco and second-hand smoke; many religions forbade the practice and rules pertaining to it were even included in Emily Post's Etiquette. There is an element of society that simply sees smoking as sinful in its own right. Even though they have seized upon the current data about second-hand smoke as justification; it is really only justification. Either they dislike your selfish pleasure or they feel you are sinful and deserve punishment.
vaping evades these people by skirting a law they erected under the guise of public safety to punish you. So even though vaping circumvents the official justification for such laws; it does not escape the scrutiny of the REAL reason many people advocate them.
So I never ask permission. Asking permission is granting authority they might not have. If someone gives me static, I explain myself and then will put it away IF required.
I made that mistake with the first business I started -- I went to the town and asked if it would be okay. Several months later they still didn't know the answer so when I started it up anyway I had already established the precedent of acceptance of their authority and they told me I couldn't until I got their ok.
I think it is worthwhile to consider that there are some other elements to smoking bans besides fear of second-hand smoke.
On the one hand are people who believe smokers are enjoying themselves and simply cannot bear the thought of someone experiencing a purely selfish pleasure. On the other hand are those who want smokers to be "punished" for their iniquity; and making them go hours upon hours without a cigarette in airports and stuff like that is seen to be well-deserved punishment that serves them right!
In either of these cases, the people will object to using an e-cigarette EVEN THOUGH it does absolutely no harm to outside parties.
Long before there was a body of research about the dangers of tobacco and second-hand smoke; many religions forbade the practice and rules pertaining to it were even included in Emily Post's Etiquette. There is an element of society that simply sees smoking as sinful in its own right. Even though they have seized upon the current data about second-hand smoke as justification; it is really only justification. Either they dislike your selfish pleasure or they feel you are sinful and deserve punishment.
vaping evades these people by skirting a law they erected under the guise of public safety to punish you. So even though vaping circumvents the official justification for such laws; it does not escape the scrutiny of the REAL reason many people advocate them.
So I never ask permission. Asking permission is granting authority they might not have. If someone gives me static, I explain myself and then will put it away IF required.
