Feel weird vaping in public

[Iffy]

Print the CASAA Tri-Fold Brochure and this ASSIGNMENT written by Maast. He gives reproduction permission in Post #23.

I hand out these two docs and an ECF BUSINESS CARD to those interested in my vaping.

 

[carpedebass]

Print the CASAA Tri-Fold Brochure and this ASSIGNMENT written by Maast. He gives reproduction permission in Post #23.

I hand out these two docs and an ECF BUSINESS CARD to those interested in my vaping.

Great stuff. I just printed off a brochure to keep here at the office. The "assignment" link doesn't seem to work though.

 

[batmom878]

I get a lot of peolpe asking andI explain the e-cig. I get a little tired of saying the same thing but people seem interested. If you can help one person get of regular cigarettes, you may save their life.

 

[Iffy]

The "assignment" link doesn't seem to work though.

Fixed it. Thanx for the heads up!

As an aside... I usually check my links... Didn't this time.

 

[DaveP]

The wait staff in a restaurant usually knows what you are doing. I carry and Ego battery with either 306 atty with a drip tip or a Boge 510 carto when I go out. I really like the cartos because you can carry several extra cartos in a pocket with the covers installed.

The Ego and a carto hides in your hand with just the tip showing. Blowing the vapor into your lap and down under the table gets rid of the vapor effectively. Lots of people vape in movie theaters using a battery with no led or a strip of electrical tape loosely over the button and around the batt. Blow the vapor down and it's gone. The trouble there is that people are close around you.

 

[Lemzip]

I still feel weird when out and about so use my don in mini mode

 

[neurosuspension]

That said I feel weird when I drive by police while vaping. Those old thoughts start going through my mind, but then I think to myself, I dare him to pull me over! Then I can take a few pulls while I explain what the eGo 510 is and where he can get one.

 

[VaporChic]

I'm new to vaping too. I've just been worried that someone is gonna think I'm smoking some sort of (edited) pipe, lol. My comfort level is growing each day, and I'm learning to be proud of vaping. I don't think I'll ever be the type to pull it out in a restaurant.

 

[wrennifer]

I feel the same way - I was at the YMCA the other day waiting on my husband to pick me up and I thought I was alone, so I got my alpha out and started vaping....then a hoard of runners came up and I felt weird. One caught a glimpse at what I was doing and asked about it (which I like when they do that rather than just stare at the person sucking on a ratchet) so I told him! They were all intrigued by it, but none of them are smokers - but nonetheless, more people are finding out about them and are curious! The more I realize that, the more comfortable I'll feel in public!

 

[ggarriso]

Felt the same at first - always go out to the smokers area and normally smokers if they notice which is RARE will actually inquire about it and say they should try it also. No worries brah1

 

[Red Dog]

The wait staff in a restaurant usually knows what you are doing. I carry and Ego battery with either 306 atty with a drip tip or a Boge 510 carto when I go out. I really like the cartos because you can carry several extra cartos in a pocket with the covers installed.

The Ego and a carto hides in your hand with just the tip showing. Blowing the vapor into your lap and down under the table gets rid of the vapor effectively. Lots of people vape in movie theaters using a battery with no led or a strip of electrical tape loosely over the button and around the batt. Blow the vapor down and it's gone. The trouble there is that people are close around you.

I vape in movie theaters (and just about everywhere else) all the time. I do it openly without the slightest attempt to hide what I'm doing. In over a year, only once was I told that I could not vape someplace. Occasionally, I'm questioned, but it's almost always someone wanting to know more about it and where to get one.
I feel that if we don't get out there, and vape openly in public, then it will never be accepted. If we act like we're smoking (ie only vaping in smoking areas), then the public will treat us as smokers. Then before you know it, we'll have to vape in smoking areas.

 

[subversive]

The only indoor public place I vape in is the movie theater, and only if there is no one sitting in my row or in the row in front of me. Plus I blow the vapor down my shirt and only take a few drags if I really need them.
I personally think it's rude to vape in a restaurant or non-smoking bar unless of course you ask the owners and the people sitting around you. I also hear/read from a lot of people against PV's that the only reason people want to use them is so they can smoke anywhere..so parading around with clouds of vapor around you only serves to reinforce that assumption.

I've been vaping for 6 months, and I've gotten over walking through parking lots vaping and getting weird looks, and I'll sit right out front of the mall vaping, but I'm always a little anxious doing it because people do stare. I don't like confrontation or talking to strangers.

I do get a lot of questions from smoking family members. They all like me using my device. I have one non-smoking sister who is happy I'm not smoking, but she doesn't like me to vape near her or in her car or home. And of course I have to respect that.

I also have a small worry when I am driving in the car that one day a cop is going to see me sucking on some strange device and pull me over!

 

[Iffy]

The only indoor public place I vape in is the movie theater, and only if there is no one sitting in my row or in the row in front of me. Plus I blow the vapor down my shirt and only take a few drags if I really need them.

Gotta love selective self gratification...

 

[subversive]

A movie theater with a handful of people sitting nowhere close to you on a weeknight while you take 5 drags throughout the entire movie is a little different from a restaurant where tables and booths are right next to each other and with waiters walking by constantly. If I'm sitting in the top row, and no one is in my row or the one below me, no one is smelling or seeing the vapor. It's not often that I get a theater like that, so most of the time I don't vape.

Walking through a store would be the same as a restaurant..people would be walking by within feet of me and passing through the vapor.

Kind of like how if you're smoking a cigarette outdoors in a park..people 15 feet away might get a whiff of smoke but you wouldn't stand right next to them or blow it in their faces. And yes, I realize PV's aren't cigarettes, but the vapor does have a smell to it and I wouldn't stand next to random people with a mini fog machine, either.

 

[Steelmage]

I take pride in vaping in public places. I want people to ask questions and I want to let everyone know that there are alternatives to smoking analog cigarettes. If I can help even one person move from smoking to vaping, then I've done some good. While I do take others into consideration do keep my distance from others, I really enjoy talking to others if they approach me and try to spread the word about Vaping. After 42 years as a die hard smoker, vaping is the only thing that has worked for me to get me off and keep me off analog cigarettes and believe me I've tried all the gums, patches and even hypnotism. After having pretty much resigning myself to eventually dying of a smoking related illness vaping came along and gave me a new lease on life. I want to be able to share that with others and being a walking advertisement is my way. Each of us has our own way, this is mine. So be seen vaping, be considerate and enjoy life

 

[Eithne]

I typically only vape in places where smoking is allowed, like others on here. It does lead to odd looks from others, especially as my cig is black. I did start to notice though, that at work there are quite a few people who vape (they make you vape outside at my work), and many of my friends have switched over, so I feel a lot less embarrassed now. I tell people who ask about it, and otherwise let them stare. I also refuse to use a white e-cig because it is already pretty easy to tell it's not an analog cig. I think it's helped to minimize the weird reactions.

 

[Torrentula81]

I'm not comfortable vaping indoors. Outside though im OK with vaping where I choose. Personally I feel more out of place vaping in smoking areas then non since I'm not smoking. I don't want to be associated with smoking when I pull it out so I stand in non smoking areas only.

 

[brittanyNI]

The vapor from a PV is not toxic waste and quite frankly extends no further than your breath. All the vapor does is make the locations where your breath is going more visible.

When I breathe out, I might have a cold and infect someone with a weakened immune system and kill them. I might afflict someone with the garlic from my pesto. If I just drank coffee my breath might even contain a few nanograms of evil caffeine.

I am all for being polite, but I don't think in general it is healthy to take an attitude that what we are doing should be hidden or is somehow any more hazardous to the people around us than breathing.

The problem with smoking is NOT that it is some sort of moral issue akin to child molestation -- though some people (the same ones who would have burned "witches" in prior eras) have done so. The problem with smoking is that it contains carcinogens that could harm your health. Now, 2 out of 3 people who smoke until the day they die never get a smoking related illness. But, hey, who wants to be in the unlucky 1/3rd?

Why should we treat vaping as though it is shameful, hazardous or akin to child molestation? Vaping is NOT smoking. It generates no carcinogens for unwitting bystanders to absorb. And while it can have a faint smell, it is certainly no worse than the smell from the onions on my salad at lunch. It is certainly no more dangerous than me being in public and sneezing -- which could conceivably start the next pandemic flu and kill millions. Do you ask permission of strangers before breathing if you have been eating onions?

I guess what I am saying is that there is a population of stupid people out there whose crusade regarding smoking is a baseless moral witch hunt; and capitulating to them while vaping will only encourage them. By all means, be polite, but don't act as though you are sacrificing virgins to Satan on the sly. You aren't. You aren't doing anything that could harm anyone around you, and since your rights end where harm to others begins, none of them actually has a right to give you a pain.

People might have the power to give you pain, but there is no legitimate reason to do so. The only reason to stop you from vaping is to "punish" you for the "sin" of using nicotine. Its interesting to me how a population of functional atheists still manages to act as though they were managing the Spanish Inquisition.

 

[Baldr]

I'm pretty much with you until the last paragraph. Then I can't figure out what you are saying.

Who are the atheists here? People that don't like vaping are atheist?

 

[Mindfield]

Why should we treat vaping as though it is shameful, hazardous or akin to child molestation? Vaping is NOT smoking.

But that's the problem: Quite aside from the fact that vaping is still new and few people know what it is, there are those who, even when told the difference, still treat vaping like smoking because it's much easier to take the lazy man's way of ignoring all of the facts before them and glomming on to that one little negative piece that fits their worldview: It has nicotine! Nicotine is tobacco! Never mind that that isn't true. It's inconvenient to their crusade and so they just don't bother making the distinction.

Much of society likes things simple and nice and neat and black and white, and they don't like to be wrong. Details are, on the whole pesky little things to be ignored, particularly if they contradict their opinions or show them to be wrong in some way. Some people will take one little tidbit of information and build an entire harangue around it.

The only thing that will shut them up -- or at least quiet them down -- is for E-cigs to become more widely known about and accepted for what they are: Cleaner, greener, healthier alternatives to smoking that reduce the population of the smokers some people so despise.