It may be how we carry ourselves

[Trips1103]

I just started vaping a week ago. Since then I've been to the supermarket several times, a department store, the mall, WalMart, a health clinic, the Dollar Store, and my Mom's house.

I have vaped out in the open, as needed. I haven't hid it in the least. I also don't carry myself like I'm trying to get away with something.

I have not been bothered once. Not once.

I do have to assert that we need to change our attitude. The more we think we are "getting away with something" while vaping in public, the more we are buying into the hype that we are doing something wrong. We aren't.

 

[bmwjen]

i've never been bothered anywhere either.

 

[Timothy Cullen]

i just do it like i do every thing esle non chalantly i mean i aint making no friggin big deal out of it. but i def dont look like im doing something criminal or shady. and i openly laugh at some of the stupid looks i recieve.

 

[artizhay]

I think you'll always get weird looks just because of how people are always suspicious and come to conclusions too quickly. This has nothing to do with vaping, but when I was younger (as in obviously below drinking age), I was walking around at the Strand (I guess you could call it a promenade) with an IBC root beer bottle and people gave me and my parents the dirtiest looks because they thought it was beer. Some people just have the intelligence level of a rat; can't do anything about it.

 

[my2heartboys]

All I can say to the OP is ditto. The only place I have been bothered is at the college where I go and they tell me to go do it outside at the smoker's corner.......BBBBBRRRRRR

Anne

 

[pastrybiz]

Smart people get it. After my stroke which was caused by 45 years of smoking cigs I was relaxing in intensive care and smoked in my bed under the watchful eye of my nurse who didn't care, she said it wasn't against the law. All she cared about was my blood pressure. She was a cool nurse. I know that my Rocket has saved my life. Even my doctor brags about me to the other patients. No cigs for a year.

 

[ec!gg]

Many restaurants I been to never seem to bother me. Most people just wonder what it is and I just go into detail and explain what it is and that's it. Most people are very friendly.

 

[ZoSo15]

I've found that I can go much, much longer without a drag of my e-cig than I used to be able to go without a cigarette. So I don't really ever feel the need to vape inside establishments. I also don't like to draw attention to myself.

The only place I really vape openly is in airports. Most of the security people there are briefed on e-cigs so they don't bother me. The looks I get from fellow travelers are pretty amusing, though.

 

[Demarko]

I used to work at the Home Depot for a long time, and recently I was in there and chatting with a few old co-workers about nonsense. I pulled out my PV and took a few puffs, without even thinking about it, then a bit later did so again and finally someone asked if that was an ecig. Apparently they're common in Home Depot now. And perfectly allowed. At least, at that one.

And as one of my former supervisors said, even if they said they weren't allowed, it'd be the same way that they enforce the "no dogs" rule. IE - Not at all.

 

[JuggaloJoe]

I think your right. There is nothing wrong or illegal about vaping in public. If you carry yourself in that manner, rarely will anyone approach you negatively.

 

[cbabbman]

People are stupid. Non-smokers, who thing someone is smoking are just idiots beyond compare.

I've been dealing with the social status that a smoker has for so many years... I just vape as if I were smoking and go outside. I have no desire to prove a point nor am I so addicted that I MUST SMOKE ANYWHERE!. It's not a big deal and quite honestly, I am going to make a bigger impression on smokers with the ecig than I will EVER make in front of non-smokers.

When I started vaping, I went to HR to show them what it was because at some point, someone was going to have a fit... They were supportive but asked that I smoke it outside. Not a problem. As I suspected, as I started converting people over to them, one of them took it too far and was vaping on the factory floor "cause there are no laws against it"...

So we take an already stupid bunch of people and give them something to more to ..... about. It's not worth it and not worth the hassle... My health is the only thing important and I am fixing that. I don't need to add to the drama...