In my experience, the cloud chasers aren't really helping matters.
I'm from a pretty rural area. So much so that for most people, smoking is fine. Out of 150 employees where I work, I know know of 2 that vape exclusively (me being one, we're both tootle-puffers). But I would wager 75% of the others are regular tobacco users (probably half cigs, half snuff). And that's normal. So for people in my community seeing someone chuck a huge cloud from a bulky box in their hands, it's off-putting to them.
Just the other night browsing Facebook, I came across a meme of a deer hunter with a vape in his lap. The caption read something like, "Put Doe-in-Heat in my vape to attract a big bucks, but now my mouth just tastes like deer *expletive*". It was just a joke, and I giggled. But since I happened to recognize the vape was an iStick with a Nautilus mini, I was gonna comment. You wouldn't believe the things I saw there. People commenting about how gay vaping is, or about how a man vaping is no man at all. And of course, comments from the uninformed claiming how much more dangerous it is.
But that got me thinking. If there are so many people out there thinking it's worse than smoking and not understanding that many vapers simply picked it up to put down the smokes, it points to a lack of information being delivered to the masses. And if the benefits of vaping over smoking aren't being put out for anyone to see, who would be to blame for that?
Big tobacco. I mean naturally, if something were to threaten their profits, they'd want to silence it.
Now I don't think cloud chasers are hurting the public image of vaping. But I do think that those people who simply vape 0mg nicotine just so they can chuck clouds and be trendy, having never even smoked before, they are not helping. Especially with tobacco companies not wanting to lose profits to vaping.
But I'm a live and let live kinda guy. If you want to start vaping just because you think it would be fun to blow huge clouds, have at it. I just wish that non-vapers would simply do a little research before chastising someone else for what they do.
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I'm from a pretty rural area. So much so that for most people, smoking is fine. Out of 150 employees where I work, I know know of 2 that vape exclusively (me being one, we're both tootle-puffers). But I would wager 75% of the others are regular tobacco users (probably half cigs, half snuff). And that's normal. So for people in my community seeing someone chuck a huge cloud from a bulky box in their hands, it's off-putting to them.
Just the other night browsing Facebook, I came across a meme of a deer hunter with a vape in his lap. The caption read something like, "Put Doe-in-Heat in my vape to attract a big bucks, but now my mouth just tastes like deer *expletive*". It was just a joke, and I giggled. But since I happened to recognize the vape was an iStick with a Nautilus mini, I was gonna comment. You wouldn't believe the things I saw there. People commenting about how gay vaping is, or about how a man vaping is no man at all. And of course, comments from the uninformed claiming how much more dangerous it is.
But that got me thinking. If there are so many people out there thinking it's worse than smoking and not understanding that many vapers simply picked it up to put down the smokes, it points to a lack of information being delivered to the masses. And if the benefits of vaping over smoking aren't being put out for anyone to see, who would be to blame for that?
Big tobacco. I mean naturally, if something were to threaten their profits, they'd want to silence it.
Now I don't think cloud chasers are hurting the public image of vaping. But I do think that those people who simply vape 0mg nicotine just so they can chuck clouds and be trendy, having never even smoked before, they are not helping. Especially with tobacco companies not wanting to lose profits to vaping.
But I'm a live and let live kinda guy. If you want to start vaping just because you think it would be fun to blow huge clouds, have at it. I just wish that non-vapers would simply do a little research before chastising someone else for what they do.
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