Need to work on!

[rbding]

Just IMO I think we should not call any of these e-cigarettes. We are not striking a match lighting a lighter or even heating a stove burner to light anything in this hobby. Yeah we inhale vapor (not smoke I may add). So why do we call them e-ciggs. It's a term to add to the fuel for the wrong corporations and lobbyists trying to link it to smoking a cigarette. Just wondered what your take is and if I'm off let me know. Like I said its just my opinion.

 

[Chimney34]

I agree. Someone posted a similar thread a while ago. I prefer to call mines a PV because that's what it really is. I think a lot of it has to deal with ignorance. I know other vapors but most of them use some sort of cigalike so when I say PV to a smoker or a nonsmoker they are totally mystified. I get the same reaction when I say I'm going to go vape. Drives me nuts!

 

[szot]

I agree with your point on the negative implication the words electronic cigarettes have...most people don't understand how there is no smoke and its not a cigarette really...BUT I can understand how it started with that terminolgy since most originals were white with a brown filter appearance of an analog real cigarette...come up with a new word for ECigs and maybe it will catch on..

 

[DuckysBooBoo]

Well it is a personal vaporizer. What do you call it?

 

[Raven1970]

I also agree, I guess it's more of a marketing scheme to attract analog smokers, i call it a PV.

 

[Ken Loh]

I'll call that a personal shisha

 

[chellemmm]

I call mine "Lovey!"

 

[EddardinWinter]

I call mine "Lovey!"

Good pet name. I am afraid e-cigs are here to stay as a moniker, folks.

 

[szot]

Personal Vaporizers is well known in the vaping community, but outside somebody would think of a home humidifier/vaporizer type object...so maybe we really need to come up with something that non vapering people can comprehend without the word cigarette in it...suggestions?...

 

[Wizzlefits]

Mine is a PAED "Personal Aroma Enhancement Device".
Vape next to a smoker and see where people chose to stand.

 

[HughDaHand]

I had to stop using the word "Vaporizer" to describe mine because a lot of people thought it was for illegal drugs. It was much easier to have them think of it as a cigarette. I guess it is all about where you live.