If you have never smoked tobacco before, why would you want to vape?
This is the sort of example the FDA is looking for to base their claims that e-cigs have the potential to lure non-smokers and underage people to use a device that is meant to be an alternative to smoking or a nicotine delivery device. You are unknowingly adding fuel to the burning debate on whether e-cigarettes should even exist.
I realize this is a free country and you are free to choose what to do. But I can not advocate what you are desiring to do.
Let me premise my reply by saying that from reading through vape sites the last week I know your attitude is not unique and is almost a ... political stance the vaping community is taking en masse. Or at least many within are promoting this stance. With all due respect, I find it really Anti-American (despite your saying it's a free country, that wasn't in the spirit of your reply, nor this stance in general beyond your reply), and also duplicitous. It was ok for smokers to become smokers, even after knowing it was bad for them, but it's not ok for people who don't smoke to adopt vaping simply because they like it... much like how smokers did the same. Or drinkers. Or people who eat fast food and donuts every day even though its bad for them, and even though they are overweight, and even though it would be healthier to have salad and fruit.
Either this is a free country or it's not.
I appreciate your concern that the FDA is a potential threat to e-cigarettes, but the answer is not to shun everyone who wants to vape and isn't a smoker. For one, that will never work. Smokers cannot stop non-smokers from picking up vaping. But more importantly, you are discouraging people from becoming fellow vapors, and that means you are lessening the force behind vaping. The more people who enjoy vaping, the more people the vaping community will have to fight the FDA or any legislation that comes along... NUMBERS BRING POWER. And what's right is allowing people to do what the hell they want, whether the gov thinks it's good for them or not. If they can prove vaping is BAD, then recipes can be changed. If they can't prove it's bad then it's no worse than all the other things we are FREE to choose to do with our lives. If we find out different later, 20 yrs down the road, well that was our choice. No one can live a perfectly safe, perfectly pure life. And what fun would that be?
IMHO it is a gigantic mistake to treat vaping like it's some leper colony of fractured smokers that limped here from a tobacco addiction. It would HELP vaping if it weren't JUST comprised of smokers but of "mainstream" fans as well. And it's a mistake to make excuses for vaping. People don't need an excuse to have a donut, drink coffee or have cocktails. I don't need to be a smoker to want to vape. And I also am not a smoker (though have smoked in the past some as stated in another thgread).
The fact is, the more e-cigs are threatened, the more you need anyone who happens to come along and enjoy it. And the FDA using the fact that vaping could attract new users who aren't smokers is already a bull..... stance, as why should only smokers enjoy it anyway? It's the FDA that has their head up their a$$es, wanting to restrict what people can and can't do. And the PEOPLE are always the ones who have to set them straight.
I know the vaping community is scared, but cow-towing to the FDAs stance by accepting their premise that new people who are not smokers should not vape, is the exact wrong thing to do as it goes against the spirit of America. We have never waited for permission to do anything.... this country was built on rebellion.
Here's hoping the vaping community rethinks their strategy and stands tall and strong, and in great numbers. Without excuses.
