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Reverend Brimstone

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Never happened to me but I have seen the guy from Quitters Inc. (Google it) a few times. I quit smoking 12 years ago and they still keep an eye on me! I will admit there are times I would like them to take the Wife to the room with the electric floor so I could watch her dance. I'll have to dig out one of the Wife's old cig-a-likes and get caught in the act. [emoji23]

If you have never seen the movie "Quitters Inc." by Stephen King the paragraph above will not make much sense. I recommend you watch it and then come back to reread it.
Cat's Eye, I think was the title. That was James Woods in that segment, I believe. I think a young Drew Barrymore was billed as the star.

The short story was also good.
 

BeerGolfClouds

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It happened to me last week, in Brea, CA (so it does happen in SoCal! ).

I bring my Orchid out with me while driving, and have the window down while vaping (absolute must for safety's sake, that thing will create zero visibility in a closed vehicle). I got lit up and pulled over, and spent a good ten minutes disassembling my mod and atomizer, showing the cop my juice and the ingredient list, etc. His attitude was that a cigarette can't produce that much "smoke", so I must have been doing something illegal. I'm not a shady looking man, and I don't drive a shady looking vehicle, but I still got the full on criminal treatment from this guy nonetheless. It really ...... me off. I took care to let out a stream of rapid fire chain vaping clouds once he finally let me be on my way.
 

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I live in a quiet bedroom town an hour north of Detroit. Local TV station had a report on a clear liquid with no taste or aroma that the 'kids' have been using....and dying from it too. Sold in local gas stations/convenience stores. Used in standard vaping gear. If a policeman should stop and look at me while I was vaping. I would happily walk over to him/her just to talk about what I'm doing. They've got enough to worry about, and maybe I can ease their minds a little bit..
 

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They are going to think its something on the illegal side, looks too cool to be cigarettes. Just act polite and offer to demonstrate/let them try. Nothing else to be done.

PS - obviously, don't be doing anything illegal that a cop would only find out for pulling you over for vaping. Not a necessary concern for most people, but don't give them an excuse.
 

Amraann

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yea it happens I got pulled over because they thought I was up to know good. I didn't see a cop a couple cars back and when he pulled me over he said he could see smoke bellowing out of my car. After I explained to him I was just vaping and not doing anything illegal he just checked my registration and insurance and said have a nice day. Needless to say when im clouding it up im more aware of my surroundings. What can you do!!!!

I did not read beyond this post yet... Is it illegal to smoke in your car in Cali? I mean if all he saw was smoke why would he assume it was anything more than a analog?
 

FallenRawToast

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I did not read beyond this post yet... Is it illegal to smoke in your car in Cali? I mean if all he saw was smoke why would he assume it was anything more than a analog?

Actually in some cities in Southern California it is illegal to smoke in your car if children are in it. As i understand that law isnt too heavily enforced, but they did put it on the books a couple years back.

I know that they were trying to make it a State wide law here in California.. not sure if they passed it or not.
 

93gc40

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in some parts of the country if one is observed vaping it may not necessarily be e-juice
in the tank.
just saying
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Yeah.. It's facinating... I found this site 1 month after buying my vape rig for the purpose of vaping ........ products, via a forum specializing ing vaporiztion of .........

Because the kit I bought came with a CE4. I figured what the hell.. 4 months later, after 40 years of 1-2 packs a day, I'm down to 2-3 analogs and considering upgrading to a rebuildable tank and Box Mod. By the way the E-cig only gets used for Nic Ejuice these days.
 

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I kept waiting for them to get out of their cars to come talk to me. I was thinking this cop is gonna feel real stupid when he finds out it's just a en cig. We have a lot of head shops here, and I blame a lot of them for the cops watching vapers, cause they are selling the dry leaf vaporizer pens.

Yeah man, I was down in NMB last month and really surprised at the amount of shops that opened up since last year. I'd always hit up VaVa near Conway and than saw one opened up on 17 and about 5 other different shops.
 
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