I said "generally" for a reason. But my point is still accurate. Your mini-battery stick model PV's do not have the consistency, performance or much less hassle factor of a good PV such as the Provari, Vamo, Darwin, Zmax, Kgo, etc. And how one looks is completely subjective. Many of us do NOT want to look like we are still smoking or pretending to smoke analogs. We want to break the bad perception that smoking and vaping are the same thing.
And I have read far too many posts on various vaping sites, as well as talked with local people, that due to the poor performance of most cig-a-like models, many first-timers viewed vaping as a scam and went back to smoking. The majority are not like the person in the following post from ECF (yesterday) who gave vaping a second chance:
From Joyetech eGo-c:
"Hi all,
I'm a 31 y.o. heavy smoker (smoking since I was 13) who lives in rainy Berlin and is fairly new to e-cigs - up 'till now I only used nasal snuff and once had the cheap-... "Health e-Cigarette" fake I bought from a flea market for about 10 bucks.
I used it for a week, then it died on me, I threw it in the trash and kept smoking my daily 20-25 'real' cigarettes since I just thought all e-cigs are joke. Last few days, however, I'm coughing a lot, can't catch my breath and generally don't feel ok after a smoke (also perhaps because I had a fair amount of joints without filter this week..), but anyway, I found this forum, lurked for a while, saw few video reviews and decided to finally invest in a good device to finally rule e-cigs completely out.
I read a lot of topics here and got some initial impressions about brands, mods and liquids, so today I ordered a Joyetech™ eGo-C Type A brushed metal kit from Joyetech's website and also 30ml of 2.4% (24mg) 50/50 'Dark Vapour' juice from some other website since I was not sure if the kit will come with full tanks. I wait for the parcels on wednesday...................."