Since you have only been on this forum for a few months, I will try to be patient with you. As all the vets on ECF know, I advocate vaping openly but respectfully and with common sense. I don't advocate vaping in a manner that "disturbs" others by producing clouds of vaper. But your comment appears to indicate that the mere sight of someone vaping in public such as on a park bench could disturb some random person and thus we should be sure to never let anyone actually see us vape.
If that is what you mean, then your concept of personal freedom and mine is completely different.
What a laughable, incongruent response.
You advocate that we should act like vaping and smoking are exactly the same. You equate vaping openly in public but respectfully as a "public disturbance" when it is not done in a smoking area. So according to you, when I vape on the park bench at the local park where smoking is prohibited, I am creating a "public disturbance" and I'm just an inconsiderate d-bag.
So anyone who vapes publicly but respectfully and with common sense but not in a designated smoking area is a d-bag. And the fact that it has been proven that there is no harm to others from second-hand vapor is not important. And providing the perception to the uninformed that smoking and vaping are the same and equally dangerous is also not important.
If you are not just a "troll" from the ANTZ camp, you really should consider joining them. Your so-called "logic" blends well with theirs.
As it appears.. If someone disagrees with you, he's either a troll/ANTZ or to new on the forum for his opinion to count.
So let me gladly disagree with you one more time.
Vaping on an somewhat isolated park bench is fine... Hell... smoking on an park bench is fine with me. But as it has been pointed out to you, if you give a inch people will take a mile and they will start vaping anywhere like douchebags, it's already happening. That's why a line must be drawn, don't vape where you can't smoke.
Do you really think that vaping where smoking is not allowed will educate non vapers about vaping? Please....
Only one thing will educate the general public about vaping and that is time. When the real data comes out, in 30 years or so, when real, long term scientific data will be available, not just a single research that says second hand vapor is fine. When lung cancer will be on a decline and directly linked to vaping..... Then we will have the right to vape where smoking is not allowed... Until then, we have to suck it up, draw between the lines and be happy that we have found a good alternative to smoking. We should talk to every body about vaping... Not shove it in their faces.
Edit: we should focus on the real battles, like exaggerated regulations. Vaping in public should be the least of our worries.
