How am I fooling myself when I've seen it first hand? Non-smokers who have the opportunity to smell the vapor, see how it doesn't fill a room like smoke and find out that it's the same stuff they are exposed to in a nightclub or theater have no reason to demand that it be done outside like smoking. That first-hand experience shows them how illogical it is to ban them indoors. I've told non-smokers (after ademo) how they are trying to ban e-cigs and ALL of them thought it was stupid to ban them.
If you explain it to non-smokers as a way around bans, they will see e-cigs that way an be offended. If you explain to them that it a way to avoid cigarette smoke and improve your health, they see it in a different light and support it. If non-smokers are educated and don't demand it, legislators have no public pressure to ban e-cigarettes indoors. The pressure will come from uneducated or public health-duped non-smokers, not from smokers - that is why it's still prudent to at least TRY to win them over.
I didn't say ALL of you are fooling yourselves.
I'm saying that shoving something down someone's throat and telling them to like it won't do your "cause" much good.
You're right, if you explain that the PV is the only thing that's been able to help you stop smoking cigarettes and frame the concept as the PV being your defense against big tobacco, they'll see it in a better light generally.
That said, no one can say inhaling ejuice vapor is safe. Sure, we believe it's at least safer because most of us have personally felt how not smoking cigarettes has benefited us health-wise. However, just because we have a personal feeling on the matter, doesn't give us long-term studies on the safety of the habit.
Remember, they used to advertise cigarettes as more than safe. They advertised that they were good for you (clear your respiratory system, etc.)
This was because they didn't have long-term evidence to the contrary. Until there are case studies of people who vaped daily for 20 years, there's no definitive way to say that PV are not a health hazard. That being the case, lawmakers are going to err on the side of caution (if they err at all) and add PVs to the cigarette ban.
I personally think it's irresponsible to tell someone, "Look, it does no harm.", and blow vapor in their face when we don't know that for sure. Asbestos did nothing but discourage building fires too (until they did studies on people who worked with it daily for a couple of decades).
To paraphrase something I saw Mistress Nomad post (with my own brand of charm):
Logically, inhaling PG and VG vapor with nicotine and flavoring added is less harmful than inhaling the burnt tobacco, paper, and added chemicals of a cigarette. Also logically, only an idiot would believe that inhaling fresh, vapor-free air isn't less harmful still.
The whole smoking ban thing is predicated on the concept that smoking is harmful to the people around you (regardless of any exaggerations in the interpretation of the study data). Telling someone that blowing out clouds of vapor into the air they're breathing won't do them any harm is lying. Even if time proves that you're right, it's lying now because we just don't know that to be true.
Personally, I'm a firm believer in the PV as a better alternative to cigarettes. Every time I walk a half mile to the corner store, my lungs thank me for switching (my pride too, since I never have to stop halfway and pretend something's caught my interest to let myself catch my breath).
I believe people should have the right to use a PV. Of course, I also believe people should be able to smoke cigarettes, ride motorcycles without helmets, or drive without a seatbelt. Before I ever heard of a PV, I constantly railed against the injustice of blanket cigarette bans. I believe an adult should have the right to do anything that he or she wants as long as it doesn't hurt someone else. I also believe that a property owner (renter really) should have the right to allow adults to participate in any activity that's not illegal.
I've said before, complaining that vaping is treated the same as smoking is as naive as complaining that you were arrested for pulling a cap gun on a bank teller. Ecigarettes were designed to mimic cigarettes - they create "smoke" that we inhale and blow back out. To the world at large (and even to some of us who vape), we're still smoking. We've just chosen what we feel is a less harmful way of doing so. Keeping that in mind, again it's inevitable that as soon as they can make it happen, the powers that be are going to ensure that the less harmful smokers are going to be standing next to the more harmful smokers.
). You are not doing anything wrong vaping, but you may be doing something wrong if you're subjecting other people to it (and you're definitely doing something wrong if you're telling people it can't cause any harm because we just don't know that yet).
And lol about the in church pew vaping. 
