City may outlaw E-smoking on beach

[Petrodus]

Marine City may outlaw smoking on beach
including banning electronic cigarettes

"Outdoor" e-smoking ban ... idiots

Yeah, I know ... people can't tell the difference
between e-cigarettes and the real thing and
e-smoking would make smokers want to light-up.
Solution: Ban e-smoking !!

 

[DaveP]

All the more reason to live where there are uncrowded beaches. The Georgia and Florida coasts are packed with great beaches where you can have the whole place to yourself. The bigger the crowd, the higher the restrictions.

It's frustrating to be a vaper and have to put up with dumb regulations to keep smokers from feeling alienated at our ability to satisfy our nic urges without littering or producing harmful side stream chemical trails. vaping leaves no litter and no one notices when I vape in the wind. I can smell a cigarette in a good breeze. Yet, we vapers are being told we can't vape because it makes smokers jealous. Go figure.

 

[Petrodus]

Smoking bans started out ... Oh, so innocently and only bans in places
where it's no big deal. Slowly over time, more and more places have
been included.

Wonder if the day will come when we will see "Smoke Free City" proposals.
Of course, e-cigs would have to be included ... Just to be fair.

 

[VapApe]

Its just another make me look good to the voters law. The way it will be unforced is a joke.

By the time after hours cops show up your long gone. And just what the heck is an after hours cop?
Are they being paid over time to go after littering?

 

[TennDave]

Just got back from the beach where I vaped unrestricted. Many smokers asked me what I was doing.
I also noticed a few smokers stick their butts (cigarette left-overs) in the sand and cover them up... Shame on them!!!
This is something I don't even have to consider with an ecig.

 

[Kurt]

Unfortunately there are disposable ecigs, and those could cause a problem if just tossed in the sand or sea water floods them. Li-ion batteries pose a bigger threat than regular batteries, I think.

 

[Fiamma]

After I started vaping I sort of tuned out the smoking news, but I think they have banned smoking on the beachs along most of Southern Calif now. DC2 might have more info I'm pretty remote from any beaches. Smokers literally litter the sand with butts on a daily basis and make a mess, was the rationale. Have not heard of any bans on e cigs so far.

 

[rookbartley989]

"Lithium Ion batteries are classified by the federal government as non-hazardous waste and are safe for disposal in the normal municipal waste stream," says Kate Krebs at the National Recycling Coalition.

And I know that at least with LiPO the safe method of disposal is in saltwater lol...

Ron -

 

[kico166]

Smoking bans started out ... Oh, so innocently and only bans in places
where it's no big deal. Slowly over time, more and more places have
been included.

Wonder if the day will come when we will see "Smoke Free City" proposals.
Of course, e-cigs would have to be included ... Just to be fair.

OMGosh! Perish the thought! Take that thought back! If they see it - they WILL probably do it!
Thinkin' I've heard it about apartment complexes in a bigger city - can't be sure though ... Uggghhhh!
I've often wondered where the smoker's rights were ... Even though I don't smoke anymore - I still feel for the smoker.

Nursing homes have started banning it "during your shift" because of the smell being offensive . I get that. But then they go to 12 hour shifts - not right. Because they are health care facility - even residents had to go outside. Not right when we were lied to.

One home I worked at (early 80's) we were allowed to smoke in the break room. Time started when you left nurses station. Because she had to wait a bit for a bowl of oatmeal - one gal was smoking while she ate. The admin happen to take his break then. (His wife was 2 yr ex-smoker.) He got all over her case for smoking while she ate. She quit on the spot. Later his wife said the break room was FOR smokers - if it bothered anyone go across the hall to another room.
That didn't undo the damage.

 

[kico166]

Just got back from the beach where I vaped unrestricted. Many smokers asked me what I was doing.
I also noticed a few smokers stick their butts (cigarette left-overs) in the sand and cover them up... Shame on them!!!
This is something I don't even have to consider with an ecig.

Shame on them! Even as a smoker - for years I have stepped on the end of the cig - made sure it was out and either put the .... in the handy trash bin or if there wasn't one around - stuck it in the "coin" pocket. Yes it stunk but I felt the less negative attention to the subject the better. Additionally - I didn't care to be picking up butts around my own yard - never mind an employee out picking 'em up in the parking lot at a fast food joint.

That was just me ...

 

[SissySpike]

They sold our industry to china and other country's yet most still buy the products but complain about our economy. We let them do as they please weve only our selves to and our complacency to blame.

 

[iowajosh]

I am not understanding the logic of prohibiting something because it looks like something else...... That isn't even a real justification.

 

[rookbartley989]

I am all for banning the hula hoop and any other activity that makes kids look like they are dry humping the air...its extremely offensive!

Ron -

 

[iowajosh]

Insulin needles and (MODERATED) needles look the same to me.

 

[classwife]

Careful please....


http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ecf-forum-rules/51178-forum-rules.html
9.3 Discussion or mention of illegal/illicit drugs or sexual content.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ation/255864-why-we-dont-allow-drug-talk.html

 

[Petrodus]

I am not understanding the logic of prohibiting something
because it looks like something else... That isn't even a real justification.

Many Nanny State bans are not based on real logic.

Nanny State lovers just love telling others what they can and can't do.

Sadly today, America is jammed packed with officials that would rather
impose bans than listen to their irritable screeching voices.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

I am not understanding the logic of prohibiting something because it looks like something else...... That isn't even a real justification.

If you understood it you probably wouldn't be posting on this site.

 

[DaveP]

I'll keep my ecig in my pocket when I go out if people will quit endangering my life by splitting their attention between the cell phone (that removes a hand from the wheel) and my car that they are about to pull out in front of. I cringe when I approach someone with a cell phone blocking their peripheral vision and I see their wheels incrementing impatiently in MY direction.

 

[CapitalPuff]

I am all for banning the hula hoop and any other activity that makes kids look like they are dry humping the air...its extremely offensive!

Ron -

LMFAO! HAHAHAHA!

 

[Vocalek]

I'll keep my ecig in my pocket when I go out if people will quit endangering my life by splitting their attention between the cell phone (that removes a hand from the wheel) and my car that they are about to pull out in front of. I cringe when I approach someone with a cell phone blocking their peripheral vision and I see their wheels incrementing impatiently in MY direction.

Yikes: In the parking lot of my grocery store, I had to stop my car because some genius (<-sarcasm) turned the corner, was walking toward me in my lane holding the leashes for two small dogs in one hand and his cellphone up to his ear with the other. He was in La-La land, not looking where he was going or at what was coming. I couldn't swing around him because shortly after he turned the corner, a car turned the corner into the oncoming lane.