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IMHO, a cigarette is a cigarette is a cigarette! If it makes one more likely to not smoke one by calling it different names, (stinkies, analogs, death sticks etc) so be it. Seems utterly ridiculous to me. They ARE cigarettes and you either chose to smoke them or you don't!! Sometimes people have to demonize the object of their addiction instead of enhancing their own will power to avoid it.
Cigarettes are kind of like squirrels. Both of them are harmless until you stick one in your mouth and light it on fire... ;-)~
Cigarettes are kind of like squirrels. Both of them are harmless until you stick one in your mouth and light it on fire... ;-)~
In my mind my PV is a .... Kicker and cigarettes will always be butts.
One of my nieces asked me why I sucked butts and i got mad until she pointed out that ALL cigs have butts and that is the end that goes in a smokers mouth. The more you suck on it the stinkier it gets.
One of my nieces asked me why I sucked butts and i got mad until she pointed out that ALL cigs have butts and that is the end that goes in a smokers mouth. The more you suck on it the stinkier it gets.
You can call them whatever you want. I call them cigarettes 
Never felt the need to give them a clever/unclever nickname.
Never felt the need to give them a clever/unclever nickname.
Bah damn kids! No respect for anything.You werent here 3-4 years ago so you dont have a choice in the matter
Its like all your silly remakes of classics movies that shouldnt be touched
Now get off my damn lawn!!!!!
LOL now I know we got a lot in common. I didn't think you could hear me when I said that the other day. I fixed em though. I put a fence up so the little buggers can't get in..
A bunch of us at the shop I work at recently began vaping.
I was the first of this group to switch entirely to e cigs.
At break one night a few of the guys lit up and I asked what was with the "analogs" not in a disparaging manner.
They laughed at my choice of words.
Don't take the comments about analogs too seriously. With vaping just like anything else there will be those with a snobby attitude.
Just my opinion.
Steve
I was the first of this group to switch entirely to e cigs.
At break one night a few of the guys lit up and I asked what was with the "analogs" not in a disparaging manner.
They laughed at my choice of words.
Don't take the comments about analogs too seriously. With vaping just like anything else there will be those with a snobby attitude.
Just my opinion.
Steve
Calling a cigarette an "analog" is completely ridiculous:
The phrase "analog clock," for instance, refers to the clock's hands moving around the face, which are seen as analogous to the movement of the sun across the sky.
So it's the cigarette that's the original item here, and the e-cig that's the analog, because it resembles or parallels the cigarette.
IOW, calling the cigarette an "analog" is just flat-out back-asswards.
The Miriam Webster Dictionary said:
The phrase "analog clock," for instance, refers to the clock's hands moving around the face, which are seen as analogous to the movement of the sun across the sky.
So it's the cigarette that's the original item here, and the e-cig that's the analog, because it resembles or parallels the cigarette.
IOW, calling the cigarette an "analog" is just flat-out back-asswards.
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I think it's just the fact that there's no electricity, and people associate electricity with things that are digital.
The natural opposite of digital is analog.
The natural opposite of digital is analog.
Okey-dokey then. Look it up for yourself.
Analog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(And if I sound like a stodgy old professor, it's just because . . . I'm a stodgy old professor.)
Analog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(And if I sound like a stodgy old professor, it's just because . . . I'm a stodgy old professor.)
Oh I believe you, I was just making an observation trying to understand the reasoning for the terminology.
Oh, sorry!
Yes, I can see why people make this mistake - especially very young people - but it still drives me straight up the wall. Seems like the vaping community has enough PR problems without sounding like a bunch of illiterates.
Yes, I can see why people make this mistake - especially very young people - but it still drives me straight up the wall. Seems like the vaping community has enough PR problems without sounding like a bunch of illiterates.
Per the OP's question and defining analog in the sense of Analog VS. Digital which concerns signal complexity. Digital signal consists of 1 (on) and 0 (off). An analog signal is spectral. Since both cigarettes and personal vaporizers are either on or off they are both digital.
(plus, you use your digits to work them.)
Comparing analog to analogue is a logic error in this context.
BTW I worked as a professional sound engineer for 22 years, digital sound has much higher fidelity than analog. But hey, if you like the sound of vinyl great, but don't say vinyl is more accurate. It's not.
(plus, you use your digits to work them.
)Comparing analog to analogue is a logic error in this context.
BTW I worked as a professional sound engineer for 22 years, digital sound has much higher fidelity than analog. But hey, if you like the sound of vinyl great, but don't say vinyl is more accurate. It's not.
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Ok, fellow babies. Cigarettes are cigarettes. What we're huffing on is a vaporizer. Case closed. 
Now let's move on to more pressing issues, such as why a Spheroid atty is called that when it obviously isn't. Spheroid, that is (it's most def an atty).
Now let's move on to more pressing issues, such as why a Spheroid atty is called that when it obviously isn't. Spheroid, that is (it's most def an atty).
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I've always referred to cigarettes as cigarettes or tobacco. That way people understand that I'm not smoking anymore. I tell them I don't smoke tobacco anymore and they immediately ask me "Well then, what is THAT thing in your hand?". Glad you asked ... it's an electronic cigarette. After I explain how it works, their eyes light up and most make a comment about how they need to tell one of their smoking relatives about it.
Ecigs, except for the non-electronic 3.7v battery and tube types, are digital devices. Even in non-variable voltage ecigs, most use a pulse train to control a MOSFET device that sets and regulates voltage to the atomizer coil. If yours doesn't use a MOSFET, then the switch is taking all the current load being sent to the coil.
In the case of variable voltage ecigs, especially those that display voltage, resistance, and have voltage up/down features, they are digital devices and have a tiny ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) inside the tube that performs all those nifty features. If they were analog devices, there would be a variable wirewound resistor much like a volume control that adjusted and withstood the voltage and current passing through on its way to the coil. A mechanical mod is much less reliable than an electronic mod. High current switches and potentiometers have a life based on usage cycles and tend to fail from heat and contact failure.
In the interest of cost for labor and parts, almost all ecigs use electronic components that are in the digital class to lower cost and increase reliability.
Ecigs, except for the non-electronic 3.7v battery and tube types, are digital devices. Even in non-variable voltage ecigs, most use a pulse train to control a MOSFET device that sets and regulates voltage to the atomizer coil. If yours doesn't use a MOSFET, then the switch is taking all the current load being sent to the coil.
In the case of variable voltage ecigs, especially those that display voltage, resistance, and have voltage up/down features, they are digital devices and have a tiny ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) inside the tube that performs all those nifty features. If they were analog devices, there would be a variable wirewound resistor much like a volume control that adjusted and withstood the voltage and current passing through on its way to the coil. A mechanical mod is much less reliable than an electronic mod. High current switches and potentiometers have a life based on usage cycles and tend to fail from heat and contact failure.
In the interest of cost for labor and parts, almost all ecigs use electronic components that are in the digital class to lower cost and increase reliability.
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Per the OP's question and defining analog in the sense of Analog VS. Digital which concerns signal complexity. Digital signal consists of 1 (on) and 0 (off). An analog signal is spectral. Since both cigarettes and personal vaporizers are either on or off they are both digital.
(plus, you use your digits to work them.
Comparing analog to analogue is a logic error in this context.
BTW I worked as a professional sound engineer for 22 years, digital sound has much higher fidelity than analog. But hey, if you like the sound of vinyl great, but don't say vinyl is more accurate. It's not.
Never said it was more accurate, just that it sounds better.
But that's a debate for another forum; OT here. - Status
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