recently i went to EAA air adventure, that's right oshkosh the biggest avaition event in the country (i am and always be an airplane junky). anyways i was enjoying the night airshow, vaping away. someone from the crowd approached me (he was not an EAA official) and told me i cannot "smoke" here. i told him i am not smoking and to beat it... ie get lost. when he left and turned his back i continued right on vaping. there were people ahead of me vaping and someone was smoking a cigarette. he went and bothered all of them. it did not appear that anyone official cared about the vaping although i know smoking wasnt officially allowed. as far as the vapers go, what harm were they doing to this guy why did he feel it was his mission to get them to stop. it does zero bodily harm to him and produces almost no oder... does not stink like cigarettes. when he told me that i wasnt allowed to smoke and i told him that i was not smoking he shook his head in disbelief. really i am not smoking dont like it too da@# bad. he also told the guy that was smoking that he was not allowed to smoke his cigarette.... now i no longer care for cigarettes but i do not understand why it is nessary to ban smoking in outdoor venues. i know and fully understand that they do not want people to smoke anywhere near fueled or fueling aircraft; that should be common sense but the spectator area really?? its outside so it is not really doing anyone any harm... i personally do not care if they smoke, it should be their choice so long as i am not trapped in a closed area and forced to directly breath that crap.
as far as this guy bothering people vaping... my wife and i both felt that he should mind his own buisness.... he has allot of nerve bothering people, he is a spectator not an EAA official and has not authority to tell anyone to do anything. the only thing he could have done was complain to someone and when they discovered that the supposed smokers were actually using ecigs; they probably would have laughed at him.
i do think its great to see vaping catch on and seeing more and more people vaping and less smoking. as time passes cigarettes are going to become nearly extinct.... thats awesome... less sickness and death and people still continue living their lives as normal getting their nicotine to help them cope with life without dying for it.
as far as this guy bothering people vaping... my wife and i both felt that he should mind his own buisness.... he has allot of nerve bothering people, he is a spectator not an EAA official and has not authority to tell anyone to do anything. the only thing he could have done was complain to someone and when they discovered that the supposed smokers were actually using ecigs; they probably would have laughed at him.
i do think its great to see vaping catch on and seeing more and more people vaping and less smoking. as time passes cigarettes are going to become nearly extinct.... thats awesome... less sickness and death and people still continue living their lives as normal getting their nicotine to help them cope with life without dying for it.
but I definitely wasn't lighting up anywhere near that Antonov 124, with leaky wings 
