I was thinking about the Boston Study which cited that 30% of vapers are former smokers who are now completely abstinent from smoking. Win Win right?. But then I realized that many of the other 70% of vapers do not to quit cigarettes but rather vape as a supplement to smoking cigarettes in order to evade existing harsh smoking bans which exist almost everywhere.
One thing I first loved about vaping was the ability to no longer be confined to my apartment or car or sticking my head out the window at home to smoke. All of a sudden I could now get a very pleasurable nic fix while in the office, in a movie, restaurant, nightclub, store, my apartment and virtually everyplace where I would be itching to get out and get a cigarette. I never saw anyone out in the street for a vape break.
So even if e-cigs are not banned I feel strongly that the same restrictions on cigarette smoking already in place almost everywhere will be applied to e-cigs. After all that what the FDA does to cigarette, cigar and pipe smokers. Now that we are lumped in with that group we will be treated at least as they are.
That means no more vaping in enclosed public spaces.
Bummer. It might also hurt the vaping industry because potential new e-cig customers might not have an incentive to start vaping in order to have more smoking freedoms. And many people who now vape as a supplement to smoking might stop vaping since it will no longer expand their new found freedoms.
So perhaps we should also be fighting for our right to vape anywhere as long as no one complains about it. It would be a shame since few people seem to mind vapers and often bosses love the fact that they don't lose worker productivity due to excessive smoke breaks.
One thing I first loved about vaping was the ability to no longer be confined to my apartment or car or sticking my head out the window at home to smoke. All of a sudden I could now get a very pleasurable nic fix while in the office, in a movie, restaurant, nightclub, store, my apartment and virtually everyplace where I would be itching to get out and get a cigarette. I never saw anyone out in the street for a vape break.
So even if e-cigs are not banned I feel strongly that the same restrictions on cigarette smoking already in place almost everywhere will be applied to e-cigs. After all that what the FDA does to cigarette, cigar and pipe smokers. Now that we are lumped in with that group we will be treated at least as they are.
That means no more vaping in enclosed public spaces.
Bummer. It might also hurt the vaping industry because potential new e-cig customers might not have an incentive to start vaping in order to have more smoking freedoms. And many people who now vape as a supplement to smoking might stop vaping since it will no longer expand their new found freedoms.
So perhaps we should also be fighting for our right to vape anywhere as long as no one complains about it. It would be a shame since few people seem to mind vapers and often bosses love the fact that they don't lose worker productivity due to excessive smoke breaks.
