stop demonizing smokers

[Bylbo Baggins]

I don't notice so much putting down of smokers, but alot of putting down of the habit and how much the vaper now hates the smoking & the smoke, etc. That is sometimes hard to separate out from "demonizing the smoker," I think. I sort of cringe when I read some of the vapers' comments about smoking now....When we smoked, it wasn't so much that we were "demonized" as smokers, but that our habit was demonized and the attempt is being made to remove the habit from society. We went (outside, away from others) with our friend the smoking habit so we too felt rejected by nonsmokers....So, yeah, I don't want to make others feel that way, knowing how I felt when I smoked.

I fully agree I am forced to stand downwind of the smokers at work in the smoking section to avoid the stink of the analogs and in doing so I have to be in the hot sun or the rain if it is doing so. I do however get at least one person a week say how they envy me for breaking away from the coffin pegs and wish they could do the same but the sad part of it is while I'm standing there with them i second hand smoke a half a pack a day but still don't put them down for the filthy stinking habit they have and that I had for 20 years.

 

[WattWick]

If they're not demons... where's the smoke coming from?

 

[windxrunner]

Many people have a need to hate. And those people like to target a "group", whatever that is. Over my lifetime all the typical groups have been excluded from what is socially acceptable to hate. Except smokers. Our culture even encourages that behavior- toward smokers.

Vapers will be next. Because these people need someone to hate.

I'm not a hater, just a long time observer of human nature.

I sooo want you to be wrong about this but I must confess I harbor the exact same fear.

 

[Miata GT]

i have noticed there are some vapers/ex-smokers who seem to have forgotten what it was like to smoke. you loved it. you may have hated it as well, but you did, in fact, enjoy it at one point. when someone told you that you should not be smoking, you got mad at them. you thought (or maybe said), "it's my choice. i realize the dangers involved and have made an informed decision to continue doing this because i enjoy it. get off my d*** and shut up." we all feel this same way still about vaping. so stop demonizing people who want to continue smoking cigarettes! resist the urge to join in the non-smokers hate of smokers just because you are happy you beat that particular addiction! it's rude, hypocritical, and makes you look like a jack***. thank you for your time. windxrunner out.

EDIT: I originally said "I feel like there are quite a few vapers/ex-smokers..." That was a little over-inclusive. I have changed it.

Who says we are? I recently gave a co-worker my old eGo setup to get him started down the path to quitting smoking. I certainly hold no malice towards them and wish someone had stepped forward to help me. I found out about vaping by pure accident when a shop opened next to my hair place.