Personally, I probably wouldn't have started vaping if it wasn't for the e-cig word. I had heard of e-cigs but never heard the word vaping. I even heard a radio ad for Njoy and thought to myself "Maybe I should try those". So my first e-cig was an Njoy. That got me started doing internet research to find something better.
Now that I consider myself a vaper, I don't like the term but I can't deny that "electronic cigarette" caught my attention.
So, whether we like it or not, it's like a nickname that stuck. I bet some of you have a nickname that you hate but it's how some people know you. Some of the nicknames of people I knew growing up were pretty bad, Chiggers, Tick, Scabby, Stick Man just to name a few.