Angered looks when your e-smoking in a Non-smoking area
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I fairly often notice people move away, as if they didn't want to end up breathing my smoke, and on occasion, someone will even say "Are you smoking in here?" or something similar.
My stock response is "I know it looks like smoke, but it isn't smoke." After that, if they seem like they want to know more, I'll explain it to them.
I go dancing at a country bar fairly often where smoking is allowed. I've seen people sit at a table near me, and then pick up an move because they saw "smoke". Often while giving me dirty looks. Those, I don't bother to tell them. They are so set on looking down their noses at smokers, yet they are visiting a bar that allows smoking when there are quite a few in the area that don't.
My stock response is "I know it looks like smoke, but it isn't smoke." After that, if they seem like they want to know more, I'll explain it to them.
I go dancing at a country bar fairly often where smoking is allowed. I've seen people sit at a table near me, and then pick up an move because they saw "smoke". Often while giving me dirty looks. Those, I don't bother to tell them. They are so set on looking down their noses at smokers, yet they are visiting a bar that allows smoking when there are quite a few in the area that don't.
Some people might possibly think you're smoking drugs..... I've been sober for 13 years but some mods/e-cig designs look like some adapted crack pipes, etc. If I get a a vibe, and I feel up to it, I go explain what it is and how harmless it is.... and how it's potentially saved my life. We need to educate those that don't know or understand what vaping is.... then they won't be so harsh to the next person they see vaping. If we get defensive, we just reinforce their hostility and ignorance. Education and knowledge is contagious... be a carrier of those infectious qualities
I had that a few times at Walmart. BAD thing was the looks on a FEW faces. GOOD thing was the people who were actually interested came up to me and asked what it was. I think I inspired atleast 2-3 new people into vaping. other than that, I don't mind at all vaping anywhere, just be courteous and not blow a giant cloud in someones face. not in purpose atleast haha.
I was making a call on my cell outside of Walmart once. I was quite far from the door in fact with a XL bright green battery and a hot pink carto on top. I took a puff and a woman walked by, waved her hand in front of her face and started to fake cough while shooting me a dirty look. I put the LED end to my forehead and said "It's not real"
From the look on her face I think she needed a change of underwear.
From the look on her face I think she needed a change of underwear.
OK, you win......you're the first person on ECF to make me laugh today...Both with your funny story ANd your hilarious avatar I think your cat's been smoking too much of that Green Cow e-liquid!
I think your cat's been smoking too much of that Green Cow e-liquid!
Well...normally I would have ignored her, but I was having one of those days lol
My daughter and I were sitting in a smoking area at Hollywood Studios in Disneyworld vaping up a storm and giving our feet a break. A woman came through using the area(well marked designated smoking area) as a shortcut to get to a ride. I blew out a HUGE cloud of vapor as she passed by hitting her full force with it. It was quite unintentional, it was just a coincidence of timing. She immediately goes into this spastic fit of arm waving and dancing around to get away from it. Which immediately sent my daughter and I into our own uncontrollable fits of braying laughter. I know it doesn't sound nice, but it wasn't planned, and I couldn't have stopped laughing at that point if God himself stood in front of me and told me to knock it off. Sheesh lady. If you're that concerned about a particle of smoke landing on you, stay out of the smoking areas.
Funny story...Thanks for sharing
The scary thing is realizing that the overwhelming vast majority
of the population are NUTS. Not a comforting thought considering
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I'm new to vaping, but I do try to keep my habit off the beaten path. I guess my only advice would be to not be an e-hole about it; it serves no one to vape in a crowded area, breathing your visible exhalation alll over everyone even while explaining the harmlessness of water to nervous and irate onlookers and their children. All that does is push the issue in people's faces and hasten the day where the law once again comes to the rescue of the ignorant. I'm not averse to vaping in a public place that bans smoking, but the idea of vaping in an enlcosed area with many people, a meeting, a movie theater, crowded part of a mall, etc. gives me pause. I'm not here to impose my much-more-healthy-than-analogs vapor upon the uneducated...and I do think that guy at the mall kiosk blowing vape on unsuspecting passer-bys to try and sell his wares is being a bit of an ....
The way the law is moving, I disagree with...while I think operating an establishment that is smoke-free is a great thing, I think even this should be up to the establishment owner to decide, and for the public to exercise their wallets in protest by taking their business elsewhere if they disagree with it. Doing things this way offers businesses a chance to differentiate themselves based on the kind of environment they provide their customers. People ought to have a right to be ignorant, in either case. But, in today's "enlightened" (more like "entitled") society, people view bars, malls, and restaurants as places where they have some innate right to control the conduct of others along narrow guidelines based on their own comfort. Not everywhere need be a place of comfort and safety for everyone, methinks...
The way the law is moving, I disagree with...while I think operating an establishment that is smoke-free is a great thing, I think even this should be up to the establishment owner to decide, and for the public to exercise their wallets in protest by taking their business elsewhere if they disagree with it. Doing things this way offers businesses a chance to differentiate themselves based on the kind of environment they provide their customers. People ought to have a right to be ignorant, in either case. But, in today's "enlightened" (more like "entitled") society, people view bars, malls, and restaurants as places where they have some innate right to control the conduct of others along narrow guidelines based on their own comfort. Not everywhere need be a place of comfort and safety for everyone, methinks...
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I don't want to vape in smoking places. I started vaping to get away from tobacco smoke and the stuff that goes along with.
On the other hand when I do vape in public or crowded places I don't hide it but I do take shorter draws, hold longer and generally don't make large clouds. I wouldn't walk up to someone and start blowing in their face without a vaporizer, and wouldn't want someone to do it to me with or without one either.
I do want people to see me vaping and ask me positive questions so I can let them know how much it can change the lives of smokers and the people around them. If you want to eradicate 1/2 of smoking in a year you could simply supply every smoker with an ego. Some wouldn't take to it but many many would. Without smokers to be around and model and stigmas removed you'd see a massive reduction of smoking in a few years. The more mainstream vaping can become the more likely people will be positively exposed to it and give a try and put down the smokes.
On the other hand when I do vape in public or crowded places I don't hide it but I do take shorter draws, hold longer and generally don't make large clouds. I wouldn't walk up to someone and start blowing in their face without a vaporizer, and wouldn't want someone to do it to me with or without one either.
I do want people to see me vaping and ask me positive questions so I can let them know how much it can change the lives of smokers and the people around them. If you want to eradicate 1/2 of smoking in a year you could simply supply every smoker with an ego. Some wouldn't take to it but many many would. Without smokers to be around and model and stigmas removed you'd see a massive reduction of smoking in a few years. The more mainstream vaping can become the more likely people will be positively exposed to it and give a try and put down the smokes.
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