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.[/QUOTE]
The more I think about this, the more I agree with your stand. Kudos!!!
That last part would be great, but that's not what happened. In the previous statement the non smoker was told by ad that he wasn't smoking and then he brushed him off. That means that everything that in the post after that is merely wishful thinking. Yes, it is great that vaping is taking off and that people are smoking less and less, but that didn't happen in this case. There was no forward movement on the part of the non smoker. He's just as ignorant now as he was earlier regarding smoking. The opportunity was missed to educate this person and then let him go out and educate more people.
I've keep reading the subsequent posts on this thread and, IMHO, I keep thinking that people are missing the point. It's not only about minding your own business or smokers rights vs vapers rights. It's about education. If you want people to understand what you're doing and how it's better than smoking then you need to be prepared to answer alot of questions and deal with the ignorant. They're ignorant to vaping because no one takes the time to educate. We're too busy being ...... off about being bothered or having our rights stepped on.
more on is a naughty word? 
