That's a shame to witness what's happening in the US. Especially when most of you guys aren't even fighting back for your rights to vape.
It just isn't true that we aren't fighting for our rights. We have CASAA. When it is the various states and even cities and counties imposing bans and limitations, there is no single target where we can march in the millions, chanting and holding up signs. In this forum and the other one, we keep each other aware of petitions to be signed, letters to be written, emails to be sent. I keep my email lists of family and friends included, to help me fight, to sign petitions for me even if they never smoked or vaped.
I vape in public when I can get away with it, because it is an opportunity to educate every single person who comments or asks about it, and people do ask and comment almost every time, because of a vaguely remembered desire to know and to practice critical thinking. It's a routine: PG is used in asthma inhalers and other inhaled lung medications, VG has many internal medical applications, such as ear drops, eye drops and suppositories, both PG and VG have many applications in bath/body products, sprayed air fresheners, and in food. I concede to them that the flavors are the unknown danger, for which reason I vape unflavored when I'm around others. I explain that pure, pharmaceutical grade liquid nicotine, without burning plant matter and dangerous additives, is a mild stimulant like caffeine, and that the pure grade nic has had positive applications in the cognitive diseases of old age and in IBS. I explain to them how my chronic bronchitis cleared almost immediately by replacing cigarettes with vaping. I would say that most of the people who have bothered to engage in conversation about it, have walked away with better understanding.
When it comes to the "kiddies can get it!" danger meme, I remind people that the sale of vape products to minors is as illegal as alcohol, but that kiddies manage to get bubblegum flavored vodka, speeding tickets, shag their steady girlfriends until they have an 18 year child support onus, get scraped knees and head wounds from playing sports, run down their health with fast food, that we can't keep a clean, safe, sanitary world for the kiddies and still have our own sanity.
We can get converts and allies, but not by telling people to .... off, and not by making pronouncements on each other for our failure to win. We are always winning until we lose, and until that time, I lean on this pronouncement from modern physics: when you look at a star, it changes just by being observed by you. I stay aware, because my awareness and understanding can change things. After that, I do all I can, as do most of the others posting here.
I wish leafblowers would be as prominent in the minds of the ANTZ and nannies as vaping is, when it comes to having a clean, safe world for the kiddies.
