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[sofarsogood]

I just heard on NPR that RJ Reynolds (I believe) has new rules for their office employees starting next year. No more smoking at their desks but ecigs will be allowed.

 

[Spazmelda]

I wonder if they will allow mods, lol.

 

[FallenRawToast]

I am surprised they were still allowed to smoke at their desk anyways, considering most States had already passed no smoking in public places laws, and I would think an office with mulitple people in it, would qualify as a public place.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

Will they be allowed to vape a Vuse at their desks?

 

[sofarsogood]

I hope Reynolds is sending a signal that the government should not interfere with this technology. Governments could be funding some toxicology investigations so they can recommend best practices for formulating fluids and designing vaping equipment.

I was clueless about vapor technology until 2 1/2 weeks ago. The first day my cigs declined 80% and has stayed there. I'm giving my body time to accept vapors and practicing not smoking each of those remaining few cigs and planning for the right moment to smoke the last one. In the mean time 80% reduction with no will power is acceptable.

This might be the closest thing to a cure there has ever been. It's curing me, no thanks to government. May be there will be a smoke free world after all.

 

[minitater]

From what I have read, more and more places are banning vaping. My guess is that within a year or so they will be as
shunned as cigarettes.

 

[Davey59]

Heh, I loves me some good irony and my irony sense is a tingling.

Thanks for sharing.

I bet if this new fangled vaping takes off the government and INS will make ex smokers pay for life. Have you ever smoked before......................... BAMO scarlet letter time.

Ultimately though, if somebody cares enough about anything it ends up in court.

 

[sofarsogood]

From what I have read, more and more places are banning vaping. My guess is that within a year or so they will be as
shunned as cigarettes.

One of my motives to use vapor technology was to end the temptation to step outside at work for a smoke, which annoys the boss. That worked. So far there has been no objection to discrete vaping on the shop floor. Even so it's easy to sneak a vape indoors because there's so little odor and the vapor doesn't persist. Eventually people will understand that being more permissive about vaping helps people trying to quit tobacco.

 

[YEOJ]

Haha thats great! Probably because of fire hazard but still funny

 

[ProjektMayhem]

I'm surprised that they were still allowed to smoke at their desks. They banned indoor smoking in NC a few years ago. That's one of the reasons I quit because there was nothing better than going to Denny's and having a smoke with my food and coffee. But yeah I wonder if they can vape other brands? Vaping is better anyways!

 

[sketchness]

Where I work ( a hospital ) the smoking ban language was reworded to include all unregulated electronic devices. So my thinking is awesome I totally have a regulated box mod

And smoking in most public places has been banned here for so long that vaping indoors is weird in general. Smoking in restaurants was banned in 1989 or 1990 around these parts. We have laws in many cities that no smoking is allowed within 20 feet of a public entrance. Since California leads the way in regulations that other states tend to eventually follow......

 

[Jdurand]

New York is usually the second state to follow CA. I'm lucky, at my company we can vape indoors so far. After hours they even let smokers smoke indoors. After hours means after all the tattle tails are gone for the day. We did get reported one year. It is a little strange vaping indoors, but I feel like this has given us ex-smokers a sense of freedom that we lost long ago, I do fight the urge to flagrantly vape in the face of non-smokers though.

 

[bghill]

Wish I could vape at my desk openly. It would save me a lot of trips to the bathroom to hide in a stall and vape away!