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I actually go out of my way to vape more in public now with my vamo. I figure the more common it is the more accepted it will be. I find it hard to do this walking in a store or in a busy restaurant though. I think how would I feel eating food while someone was blowing clouds in my direction (even though said cloud is mostly harmless).
It's a balance. We want to stand up for our rights as people, but also be respectful of others while doing it. We don't always get this in return but eventually people will be less naive. I just use the "Lets agree to disagree" instead of getting into a debate with unintelligent people.
In a university or college setting there is many adults who feel they are in a position of authority. You don't want to be singled out, but yet want your voice to be heard. Some of these people may grade you in the future. If you take a stand they may change their policy and just make vaping miserable for all. I just hate being lumped in with smokers! It infuriates me to no end. Who knows what the landscape will look like in a year or two, hopefully more people will embrace vapors in a more positive light.
Makes me think of a new thread, what is the most daring place you've ever vaped lol. Good luck! We get more in life using honey than we do vinegar. <--- or whatever that saying is lol.
It's a balance. We want to stand up for our rights as people, but also be respectful of others while doing it. We don't always get this in return but eventually people will be less naive. I just use the "Lets agree to disagree" instead of getting into a debate with unintelligent people.
In a university or college setting there is many adults who feel they are in a position of authority. You don't want to be singled out, but yet want your voice to be heard. Some of these people may grade you in the future. If you take a stand they may change their policy and just make vaping miserable for all. I just hate being lumped in with smokers! It infuriates me to no end. Who knows what the landscape will look like in a year or two, hopefully more people will embrace vapors in a more positive light.
Makes me think of a new thread, what is the most daring place you've ever vaped lol. Good luck! We get more in life using honey than we do vinegar. <--- or whatever that saying is lol.
I vape almost everywhere I go. With my provari and protank 2.
I get strange looks all the time, but I really do not care what they think. I have not had a cigarette for almost a year now.
The strangest place though had to have been the county jail, no I was not IN jail, I was there working as a vendor. The jailers had nothing but good things to say about e-smokes, but I live in Nevada rural area. Pretty much nice people who mind their own business.
I get strange looks all the time, but I really do not care what they think. I have not had a cigarette for almost a year now.
The strangest place though had to have been the county jail, no I was not IN jail, I was there working as a vendor. The jailers had nothing but good things to say about e-smokes, but I live in Nevada rural area. Pretty much nice people who mind their own business.
I agree with it being a balance. I do a lot of walking around town, and will vape while I'm walking, even when I have the grandkids in the stroller with me. However, if we're walking to pick my oldest granddaughter up from school, once we get a block or so from the school and there are other parents and little kids walking near us, I stop vaping, and if I have my Reo, put it in the cup holder on the stroller, or if I am my ego, just keep it in my hand while I'm pushing the stroller. For the 10 minutes or so that we're close to the school and around a lot of others, including children, I will survive without vaping. Taking the kids to the park is a similar choice - if we're the only one at the playground, I will vape, but I stop when other children are present. I just feel that this is being respectful.
San Diego seems to be pretty open to it, but I still feel strange about when and where I vape.
I recently got a g50 had a evod. Its on a twist. I walk with it in stores and every where I can so people can ask. Here we don't have a vape store. But the gas stations are carying the small evod kits in the last two week s. I vape any I can. I respect others like in stores and such. But I vape right up to the doors. Usually in a store for like 20 or so min. So not that long really. Soon will be walking with a tesla in hand with a rsst or a protank 2
I've had mostly positive feedback.
I vape in Guitar center and they don't mind, have done it in walmart and supermarkets.
Here in NM there are huge casinos where smoking is allowed, If i sit next to a cig smoker I start to feel sick,
so sending me out to vape within a smoking area is vile.
I vape fruity flavors and vanilla/butterscotch/ caramel, often people walk by and comment about the lovely smell
not realizing it's my vape! Oh it smells nice in here they say, like pancakes and maple syrup.
I would stealth on a plane and in a theater. In fact we vape in the local Japanese restaurant and they
don't care at all.
For former smokers, having a vape at your desk MUST save your employer all those smoke breaks, it's actually
more productive for them to allow it as workers kicking cigarettes can focus without thinking about that next smoke
break they are going to have.
I agree with the poster who asks "can you smell smoke" - that's my line the very few times I have been confronted.
They look bewildered and say no I can't smell smoke, so i say well i am not smoking am I?
Personally the smell of a greasy fast food restaurant is more offensive to me, the smell of all that faux meat on hot plates makes me gag.
I vape in Guitar center and they don't mind, have done it in walmart and supermarkets.
Here in NM there are huge casinos where smoking is allowed, If i sit next to a cig smoker I start to feel sick,
so sending me out to vape within a smoking area is vile.
I vape fruity flavors and vanilla/butterscotch/ caramel, often people walk by and comment about the lovely smell
not realizing it's my vape! Oh it smells nice in here they say, like pancakes and maple syrup.
I would stealth on a plane and in a theater. In fact we vape in the local Japanese restaurant and they
don't care at all.
For former smokers, having a vape at your desk MUST save your employer all those smoke breaks, it's actually
more productive for them to allow it as workers kicking cigarettes can focus without thinking about that next smoke
break they are going to have.
I agree with the poster who asks "can you smell smoke" - that's my line the very few times I have been confronted.
They look bewildered and say no I can't smell smoke, so i say well i am not smoking am I?
Personally the smell of a greasy fast food restaurant is more offensive to me, the smell of all that faux meat on hot plates makes me gag.
Ive never been approached by someone who doesnt know what an ecig is its been out long enough peoples ignorance to modern things is amazing
I was recently vaping on the sidewalk on a lovely day in Seattle. A LEO (Law Enforcement Officer) decided to "remind me" that "smoking must be done at a specific distance from the doors of any public business".
The funny (and sadly amusing) thing is that the week prior to my visit, members of the very same police department was handing out free bags of Doritos to any and everyone who was openly and publicly smoking ....a recently legalized plant substance (on those very same sidewalks) in celebration of Hempfest.
The funny (and sadly amusing) thing is that the week prior to my visit, members of the very same police department was handing out free bags of Doritos to any and everyone who was openly and publicly smoking ....a recently legalized plant substance (on those very same sidewalks) in celebration of Hempfest.
"Ï vape at Legoland" HAHAHAHHAHAAAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!! I bet that's never been typed before! That cracked me up.
I live in Oklahoma and my town just recently got an actual vape shop. But ever since it opened i have noticed more and more people dropping the analog and picking up ego's and the like. Me personally I vape anywhere i go and usually dont have an issue. I have vaped in walmart with no issues, but that may be because i have worked there. I vape at work and that wasnt an issue until our last meeting and the owners said we need to do it outside. Someone during the day was vaping in the common area where our residents eat and that bothered them. I dont have a problem though with it mostly because i work at night when there is nobody awake to care. My charge nurse was constantly complaining about us going out for breaks to smoke analogs. They love that we can stay on the hall. They just dont want us doing it on camera.
I live in the Emerald Triangle. Not once have I been asked for a toke". It's quite laughable really, the propaganda vs the realism.
I would NEVER return a coffee shop that even ASKED me not to vape, if I was outside.
You handled it a LOT better than I would have. I wouldn't have left until I finished my cup of coffee. They could flap their little arms all they want, call the police, doesn't matter to me. If I payed money for something on their menu, and sat down, OUTSIDE, quietly to myself, vaping...you better believe it would have to be an officer finally begging me to leave, not some idiot manager.
If I'm outside, I vape anywhere and everywhere. It isn't ANYONES business to tell me where I can and can't vape if I'm outside. Inside is an entirely different matter....and for the most place, I don't vape inside unless it is a place where smoking cigarettes is allowed.
You handled it a LOT better than I would have. I wouldn't have left until I finished my cup of coffee. They could flap their little arms all they want, call the police, doesn't matter to me. If I payed money for something on their menu, and sat down, OUTSIDE, quietly to myself, vaping...you better believe it would have to be an officer finally begging me to leave, not some idiot manager.
If I'm outside, I vape anywhere and everywhere. It isn't ANYONES business to tell me where I can and can't vape if I'm outside. Inside is an entirely different matter....and for the most place, I don't vape inside unless it is a place where smoking cigarettes is allowed.
I would have said " fine" and then thrown up all over the establishment and him. That's what most of those "other" devices are for, is for controlling pain and nausea, nerves and more. They are too weak to be a " fun" thing, (except for the newbies who still giggle with aspirin in their soda). They are a med thing. The propaganda is outrageous. And anyone stooping low enough to borrow a toke off a med person is the lowest scum there is.
But they don't. They know the difference between an eCig and an emergency med kit. It's the fearmonger's who like to mix the two up and cause uproars where none should be.
But they don't. They know the difference between an eCig and an emergency med kit. It's the fearmonger's who like to mix the two up and cause uproars where none should be.
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