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I get this often from people, although it's starting to get old, I do my best to educate them. It's a common media fed perception that smoking's ill effects are due to nicotine. This forum has loads of information that can help clarify this issue.
To begin with, this little parable is very illustrative: http://casaamedia.blogspot.com/2012/02/simple-tobacco-fable.html
As for strange looks - I get them especially at traffic lights from people in other cars. Earlier, in the winter, most of them seemed confused that I'm smoking with no window open
I've made eye contact with local police, though, several times when vaping, and I didn't detect any hint of alert, so I'm quite comfortable with that so far...I've only had 1 person ask since I started in January...
....maybe I just look scary enough to leave alone.
....maybe I just look scary enough to leave alone.
I know what you mean, the clear tube with the coloured crystalline looking stuff in it does turn heads! One reason for me to switch to CE2s.
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I wont worry about what others see or dont see me doing in the car. Hell I bet that I might picked my nose in the car once.
Havent we all
The cost will get better if you get off the "I must have every new mod" train.As already said when you have settled on your hardware and have your juice you will start saving a bunch of money.
I have ny hardware and 2 flavors now. At the begin it was exspensive but not anymore. Might take a bit more time though to get into the black #s again
I wont worry about what others see or dont see me doing in the car. Hell I bet that I might picked my nose in the car once.
Havent we all
The cost will get better if you get off the "I must have every new mod" train.As already said when you have settled on your hardware and have your juice you will start saving a bunch of money.
I have ny hardware and 2 flavors now. At the begin it was exspensive but not anymore. Might take a bit more time though to get into the black #s again
The same happen when cellphones "blue-tooths" where first marketed.
people were laughing at the "idiots" waking in the street "speaking to them self's"...
and today-every body owns one.
"normal" means that most of the population has/is doing it.
since we vapors are not the majority,it is considered to be non normal.and thus creating curious looks at it/us.
but there is a big differences between "normal" and "good"... to have a 150 IQ is not normal,but that doesn't make it bad.
people were laughing at the "idiots" waking in the street "speaking to them self's"...
and today-every body owns one.
"normal" means that most of the population has/is doing it.
since we vapors are not the majority,it is considered to be non normal.and thus creating curious looks at it/us.
but there is a big differences between "normal" and "good"... to have a 150 IQ is not normal,but that doesn't make it bad.
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Let them stare!
I've been shoving the vinyl stickers (best idea ever vendors!) and cards from all the sites I've ordered from into my wallet- and handing them out to folks who are interested in trying it.
I've been shoving the vinyl stickers (best idea ever vendors!) and cards from all the sites I've ordered from into my wallet- and handing them out to folks who are interested in trying it.
the problem with vaping, especially with mods, is that people look like they're (doing other stuff) which is a common in the drug user community.
It does look weird, and I was reluctant to get a mod because it looks like that. It looks crazy. But, if you had never seen a motorcycle before you'd call a man a fool for riding one. You might think it'd tip over and not stay up. Unfortunately that's ignorance.
It does look weird, and I was reluctant to get a mod because it looks like that. It looks crazy. But, if you had never seen a motorcycle before you'd call a man a fool for riding one. You might think it'd tip over and not stay up. Unfortunately that's ignorance.
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I have found that the people who stare the most are usually the ones that come up and ask for more info. They usually want to give the info to a friend or relative that smokes. I carry all of the vendor cards from purchases with me to hand out when this happens. I guess I need to make a few more purchases as I am running out of cards! 
Hahaha I feel the same way.... I vape incognito now but more and more people around me (coworkers) are vapen freely in the offices so I dont feel as strange. I use a smaller e cig for work and will save the big PVs for the house.
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LOL Rannar, your in LA everyone there are freaks I wouldnt worry about funny looks from that bunch. You should take a walk down Hollywood Blvd or Santa monica for that matter and see WHO really stands out. I'm sure you'd be counted as the norm Really though I'm not trying to pick on you.....I'm from LA myself
I wouldnt worry about funny looks from that bunch. You should take a walk down Hollywood Blvd or Santa monica for that matter and see WHO really stands out. I'm sure you'd be counted as the norm Really though I'm not trying to pick on you.....I'm from LA myself
I felt funny about it at first but all my friends and acquaintances know what it is and don't have a problem with it wherever. Plus, I am old enough not to give a hoot what other people think LOL.
The few times I've been asked and don't want to go into a big explanation I just say it's an "inhaler" and that pretty much stops the conversation.
The few times I've been asked and don't want to go into a big explanation I just say it's an "inhaler" and that pretty much stops the conversation.
I only use cartos in public because I don't want anyone to think I'm doing anything "illicit"
When I was at the Van Halen dress rehearsal at the GW Forum last year, a security guy tried to get me to put out my "cig". Because of the music, he couldn't hear me when I told him it was NOT a cig... finally I pushed the "lit" end into my arm, proving to him that it was NOT a combustible product. He just shook his head and walked away.
When I was at the Van Halen dress rehearsal at the GW Forum last year, a security guy tried to get me to put out my "cig". Because of the music, he couldn't hear me when I told him it was NOT a cig... finally I pushed the "lit" end into my arm, proving to him that it was NOT a combustible product. He just shook his head and walked away.
I have also been spending more $$ on my healthier habit
With a USB car charger ... you do have one, don't you?
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If the exhaled vapor looks like smoke, then it must be bad for you and me, both! That's how tobacco nazis view it. Public opinion will shift when the truth comes out on the major news networks. Tetramethylpyrazine is named as well as Diethylene Glycol as being detected in some ecig juices. The Tetramethylpyrazine is used in chocolate and coffee flavors and diethylene glycol was detected in trace form in an ecig test by the FDA. It wasn't supposed to be there and resulted from a low grade contaminated PG that was used in the juice. Since then, ALL ecigs have it, according to people that want to berate ecigs.
I can't help but bring up carbon monoxide being in high concentrations in car exhausts. We don't care about that, but people seem incensed about a contaminated PG sample with traces of DEG. Since, that test result came out, people think we are vaping anti-freeze. Well, folks who drive deadly CO producing cars shouldn't complain about my ecig. Of course, they will say that we HAVE to drive. Well yes, but not many people drove cars before the 20th century and they got along fine. Maybe we should start a campaign to monitor car exhausts and make everyone switch to $50,000 electrics that only go 100 miles on a charge.
We should clean up our act nationally and get rid of these questionable trace chemicals. I'm all for ensuring that what goes into and out of my ecig is safe. Why would I want to do something dangerous after quitting a habit that IS dangerous? This is a battle that will only be won by exposing the truth. Most doctors agree that vaping is a good thing for smokers. Eventually the truth will prevail. Until then, we can only educate the public.
I'd like to see public news outlets conduct human interest investigations and reveal the truth about the things that people point to when they condemn ecigs. Discussion of the twisted truth vs the real truth would be beneficial to vapers. I cringe when I hear city council members mentioning antifreeze when they introduce a bill to include ecigs in tobacco bans in public places. Sometimes, erroneous information can result in a good product being tainted by rumor.
I can't help but bring up carbon monoxide being in high concentrations in car exhausts. We don't care about that, but people seem incensed about a contaminated PG sample with traces of DEG. Since, that test result came out, people think we are vaping anti-freeze. Well, folks who drive deadly CO producing cars shouldn't complain about my ecig. Of course, they will say that we HAVE to drive. Well yes, but not many people drove cars before the 20th century and they got along fine. Maybe we should start a campaign to monitor car exhausts and make everyone switch to $50,000 electrics that only go 100 miles on a charge.
We should clean up our act nationally and get rid of these questionable trace chemicals. I'm all for ensuring that what goes into and out of my ecig is safe. Why would I want to do something dangerous after quitting a habit that IS dangerous? This is a battle that will only be won by exposing the truth. Most doctors agree that vaping is a good thing for smokers. Eventually the truth will prevail. Until then, we can only educate the public.
I'd like to see public news outlets conduct human interest investigations and reveal the truth about the things that people point to when they condemn ecigs. Discussion of the twisted truth vs the real truth would be beneficial to vapers. I cringe when I hear city council members mentioning antifreeze when they introduce a bill to include ecigs in tobacco bans in public places. Sometimes, erroneous information can result in a good product being tainted by rumor.
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Now that we are on this topic, I am just wondering if smaller PVs with red tips that resembles real analogs are more "socially acceptable"?
Those will get you directed to the smoking area!
If it looks like a cigarette, people think it is one. If it doesn't, then they ask you what it is and you have an opportunity to explain to them what it is and how it works.
Stopped worrying about people looking at me strange. I live in Houston and in traffic, there is usually a cop somewhere in the area. I have vaped sitting right next to a policeman in traffic before and have never even gotten a second glance. As for people, if they want to know what I'm "smoking", people, just ask me and I'll be happy to explain or demonstate. Anyone else, mind your own business or happy staring. I'm using a Lavatube with a Phiniac tank, so yes, I'm getting curious looks. I assume they think it's something illegal but unless they ask - can't help them, I let them wonder..... LOL!
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