Sometimes I get the weirdest looks when I puff on my DSE901 mini and then stuff it into my pocket .. it's a little like that "Millenium" movie from 1989 where Louise Baltimore (Cheryl Ladd) flicks her cigarette .... over the railing into a crowd dining below her. Some people are just surprised by the future.
Of course Louise Baltimore's cigarette didn't disappear like it was supposed to, so a bit of the joke was on her. It shouldn't surprise us if someone asks us to put out our e-cigs either because most people haven't arrived at our future yet. I was asked at a local Spire's restaurant to put out my cigarette and as I stuffed the mini into my shirt pocket I got the strangest look from the waitress who had approached me. Then of course the questions started after I explained that I wasn't smoking a cigarette but using an e-cig, what some people call a personal vaporizer. I told her that the e-cig doesn't burn tobacco, doesn't in fact create smoke at all, but emits a vapor which when exhaled looks something like smoke but is nothing more than a mist that evaporates quickly because there are no particulates, no burned residue like you get when using tobacco.
What could have been a confrontational issue turned into an opportunity to extend some knowledge about our beloved e-cigs, because not only did the waitress ask questions but some of the other diners surrounding us wanted to hear more and then of course, it's hard to explain without demonstrating
Needless to say I don't expect to get asked to put out my mini at that particular restaurant again. Soon enough, given enough opportunity, our choice of vaping should be as common as .. well, people flying, or the internet.
Of course Louise Baltimore's cigarette didn't disappear like it was supposed to, so a bit of the joke was on her. It shouldn't surprise us if someone asks us to put out our e-cigs either because most people haven't arrived at our future yet. I was asked at a local Spire's restaurant to put out my cigarette and as I stuffed the mini into my shirt pocket I got the strangest look from the waitress who had approached me. Then of course the questions started after I explained that I wasn't smoking a cigarette but using an e-cig, what some people call a personal vaporizer. I told her that the e-cig doesn't burn tobacco, doesn't in fact create smoke at all, but emits a vapor which when exhaled looks something like smoke but is nothing more than a mist that evaporates quickly because there are no particulates, no burned residue like you get when using tobacco.
What could have been a confrontational issue turned into an opportunity to extend some knowledge about our beloved e-cigs, because not only did the waitress ask questions but some of the other diners surrounding us wanted to hear more and then of course, it's hard to explain without demonstrating
Needless to say I don't expect to get asked to put out my mini at that particular restaurant again. Soon enough, given enough opportunity, our choice of vaping should be as common as .. well, people flying, or the internet.
