I read this in another subforum here, but I agree: Calling them ECigarettes does nothing to help the stigma we're facing. They already "look" like cigarettes (we usually buy lookalikes to start), they make "smoke" (we know otherwise but average person on average street doesn't). For decades we've been hammered by ads warning the dangers of tobacco use and unfortunately nicotine and tobacco go hand in hand as far as the general public is concerned. Now they see us all
vaping in their face and do the little "cough cough" when vapour is seen, it's an automatic reaction because EVERYONE knows smoke is tobacco and it will kill you if you smell it. Now they get to read about legislation and the misinformation throughout it and think "Government says it's bad it must be just as bad as tobacco. It's so new we don't know what thousands of chemicals are being used like they do in tobacco."
It's a knee jerk reaction brought on by decades of anti-smoking ads and very loud voices and health care costs. Smoking is bad, pvs make smoke, pvs are bad. They won't trust studies, because they tested tobacco and results were fudged by BT mid-century. All nicotine is bad and all companies are corrupt.
As I posted in the canada forum, will a ban make a difference? Will any of you up and stop vaping and start tobacco, or will you look into less legitimate sources? The flood gates are already open, new members are signing up here by the hundreds daily (or thousands, I don't have the stats), many from countries that have bans and outirght making them illegal. They still prefer to skirt the law than continue smoking. Personally, I will face importing nic+ flavourless from china and risk having it seized before I go back to tobacco. If I couldn't get the nic+ I would 100% definitely still be a smoker, and I'm not going back down that road.
