Hiya all..
Today, I saw an occurrence I'm seeing more and more of lately, while waiting for a bus back home a guy next to me pulled a vision spinner and proceeded to vape.
Being a vaper myself, naturally, I wasn't fazed.
A lady just outside the somewhat enclosed area of the station, who was smoking, took it upon herself to finish that disgusting stinky and as she came passed the guy made this comment "you're using those too huh? they should be banned, worse than cigarettes I hear" he asked if she'd tried and she said no. This fella obviously has had this conversation many times and said nothing.
But the occurrence I'm talking about here is, her negative view of vaping, though a smoker caused a chain of disapproving murmurs at this guy next to me. I know it can be argued that it's an enclosed sort of area and maybe out of common courtesy he could have stepped outside to vape, but we're not talking huge clouds here, it was discreet and well respectful. I worry lately that the view on vaping by smokers who won't for god knows what reason try vaping are reinforcing general public negativity of what we do.
It seems to me that everyday we're coming up against more and more enemies against vaping and when you add die hard smokers to BP,BT and the government as well as uninformed Joe public, I struggle to see how we can effect any outcome.
It won't stop me fighting with all of you of course to make sure our right to vape is kept intact but it's just so disheartening to see that while we grow in number so do they.
Today, I saw an occurrence I'm seeing more and more of lately, while waiting for a bus back home a guy next to me pulled a vision spinner and proceeded to vape.
Being a vaper myself, naturally, I wasn't fazed.
A lady just outside the somewhat enclosed area of the station, who was smoking, took it upon herself to finish that disgusting stinky and as she came passed the guy made this comment "you're using those too huh? they should be banned, worse than cigarettes I hear" he asked if she'd tried and she said no. This fella obviously has had this conversation many times and said nothing.
But the occurrence I'm talking about here is, her negative view of vaping, though a smoker caused a chain of disapproving murmurs at this guy next to me. I know it can be argued that it's an enclosed sort of area and maybe out of common courtesy he could have stepped outside to vape, but we're not talking huge clouds here, it was discreet and well respectful. I worry lately that the view on vaping by smokers who won't for god knows what reason try vaping are reinforcing general public negativity of what we do.
It seems to me that everyday we're coming up against more and more enemies against vaping and when you add die hard smokers to BP,BT and the government as well as uninformed Joe public, I struggle to see how we can effect any outcome.
It won't stop me fighting with all of you of course to make sure our right to vape is kept intact but it's just so disheartening to see that while we grow in number so do they.
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