Well the clue is in the title - I am going to a few bars tonight and I shall be smoking my e-cig as openly and unashamedly as possible.
I will report back with the results!
I will report back with the results!
Right, I am gonna debut this tonight and see what happens!
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Woops! Totally forgot to write up what happened!
But that is probably because nothing really did. I got a couple of strange looks, but since I was smoking my e-cig, which looks nothing like a cigarette, I think most people realized it was probably ok. Oh, I should add that I am in the UK, where we now have a nationwide public smoking ban.
However, I think the real reason I got such little reaction was that mostly I was joining my friends outside while they smoked their "straights"!
But that is probably because nothing really did. I got a couple of strange looks, but since I was smoking my e-cig, which looks nothing like a cigarette, I think most people realized it was probably ok. Oh, I should add that I am in the UK, where we now have a nationwide public smoking ban.
However, I think the real reason I got such little reaction was that mostly I was joining my friends outside while they smoked their "straights"!
You make a good point that it helps when your electronic smoking device doesn't resemble a normal cigarette too much. Mine (a super smoker) looks exactly like a cigarette, only bigger.
Any time I smoke my super smoker where smoking is not allowed I have too explain it's not a cigarette. If people have never heard of e-smoking, they usually don't care about my explanation and forbid me to smoke. Fortunately more and more people know about e-smoking here in the Netherlands, because lately a tv commercial for the super smoker has been aired a lot on prime time tv.
Any time I smoke my super smoker where smoking is not allowed I have too explain it's not a cigarette. If people have never heard of e-smoking, they usually don't care about my explanation and forbid me to smoke. Fortunately more and more people know about e-smoking here in the Netherlands, because lately a tv commercial for the super smoker has been aired a lot on prime time tv.
Really? Wow the Dutch are way ahead of the rest of us jt seems. I wonder why e-smoking has taken off so quickly there?
Does the super-smoker have the LED on the end? What is the point? It would be so much easier without it!
Does the super-smoker have the LED on the end? What is the point? It would be so much easier without it!
Smokey_Joe said:
1) If there's anything weird to smoke the Dutch will try it.
2) All E-smoking devices have that led but the E-cigarillo
I've been smoking my mini and cigarillo in public for a while now and mostly no reaction whatsoever. Only if you start a conversation people will ask what the hell that thing is, but after a little explanation nothing but positive reactions so far.
The only 'incident' I had was the first time in my local. I was smoking away for a couple of hours and all of the sudden the bar manager saw the led of my mini (which look exactly as a normal one size 1.5) and stormed from behind his bar: "YOU CAN'T SM....., Oh it's an electric one, that's fine".
I've smoked the thing in airports, train stations, on the train, even on the plane, in bars, in restaurants and this in the UK, France and Belgium. Most people do not even notice. Somebody might ask what it is. I just tell them this is a electronic cigarette, it's like a little steam engine that produces water vapour for me to inhale. And at least half of them want to know where to buy one.
I must say that the E-cigarillo is much less conspicious without the headlight on it. I have the thing in black so it look that I'm sucking on biro. Waiting for the first reaction :"Sir, there's smoke comming out of your pen"
I took my Njoy out the bar for the first time last night. The e-cigarette is very new here in the US - most people have no idea the technology even exists. Just sitting down at the bar for about 2 hours, I must have had 20 people ask me what the e-cig was, and when I started to explain they would sit down and talk with me about it for 5 minutes. People were truly fascinated by it.
Honestly - I wish I was an e-cigarette salesman, because I probably could've unloaded 5 of them right on the spot. And I'm in Michigan - where smoking is still legal inside bars and restaurants. I could only imagine the sort of response I would get if I were in California, or New York - or any of the other 25 states with comprehensive smoking bans.
This thing is poised to have a major impact here. I mean - the market is WIDE OPEN. Smokers are so tired of being treated like second-class citizens. Not to mention - most smokers are just tired of the habit. The cost, the health-risks, the smell... people want a way out - and e-cigarette is the answer. The impact this little device could have on the US tobacco market could be huge.
Honestly - I wish I was an e-cigarette salesman, because I probably could've unloaded 5 of them right on the spot. And I'm in Michigan - where smoking is still legal inside bars and restaurants. I could only imagine the sort of response I would get if I were in California, or New York - or any of the other 25 states with comprehensive smoking bans.
This thing is poised to have a major impact here. I mean - the market is WIDE OPEN. Smokers are so tired of being treated like second-class citizens. Not to mention - most smokers are just tired of the habit. The cost, the health-risks, the smell... people want a way out - and e-cigarette is the answer. The impact this little device could have on the US tobacco market could be huge.
Absolutely right Travis. Same thing over here in Europe. Just think of the billions of the tobacco industry and taxes governments make. No wonder a couple of countries already issued a ban on selling E-cigarettes.
And we are pioneers; the first people to use it. If resellers would be smart they would include a set of bussinesscards when buying an E-cigarette, so the E-smokers can hand them out to interesseted people, instead of having to write down the web address on a beermat.
Or even better: my reseller gave me a nice box for free to carry my E-cigarette with some spare batteries and cartridges with his website address printed on it. He already had tents of referals and new clients from me. And this with a 5 $ advert.
And we are pioneers; the first people to use it. If resellers would be smart they would include a set of bussinesscards when buying an E-cigarette, so the E-smokers can hand them out to interesseted people, instead of having to write down the web address on a beermat.
Or even better: my reseller gave me a nice box for free to carry my E-cigarette with some spare batteries and cartridges with his website address printed on it. He already had tents of referals and new clients from me. And this with a 5 $ advert.
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