Using huge clouds to part a crowd of people like Moses

[AndriaD]

Which is exactly why I always avoided designated smoking areas for about the first year of vaping ...

Now it doesn't bother me so much, certainly far less than excessive applications of cologne or perfume, or questionable hygiene ...

And as always, I exercise my right to be elsewhere whenever possible ...

Yes, I'd actually prefer for cigarette smoke to be as foul as possible, because it cements my determination not to ever indulge in making that smell again myself. But I do whatever I can to insulate myself from the smell. Walking thru it outdoors isn't that huge a deal, but I would never want to be in an enclosed space with it, because it would get into my hair and clothes and linger.

I agree that the awfulness does seem to lessen with time; when I first quit and finally got free of that smell in my personal orbit, the scent almost made me gag. Now it's just a rather vague distaste; there are a great many worse smells! And since I no longer have a noseful of cigarette smoke, I can smell them all too clearly.

Andria

 

[crxess]

 

[beckdg]

LOL @ Andria's high pg invisishield.

Tapatyped

 

[TrueNorthist]

You can kill a person by doing that , i just say "pardon me coming through" and if that doesn't work i physically grab them and throw them out of my way , both work.

I have zero tolerance for people clogging my path and although docile and non violent in nature i will kick serious a_ _ if warranted.

I coulda used a fella like you back in '86. We could have sprinted through the crowd -- on your heels while you heave the rabid masses aside like rag-dolls. Oh the humanity!

 

[WattWick]

You can kill a person by doing that , i just say "pardon me coming through" and if that doesn't work i physically grab them and throw them out of my way , both work.

I have zero tolerance for people clogging my path and although docile and non violent in nature i will kick serious a_ _ if warranted.

I sense a reality show in the making. "Herb goes to India"

 

[Flt Simulation]

.... just as I am walking by, I blow out a huge cloud of vapor, much bigger than all of their cig smoke clouds combined.

This is to clear a path for me, to let them know to get out of my way, and also so that I don't have to smell too much tobacco stink when walking by those people, as they are standing there and puffing on their cigs. I have found that this method works well!

That method will work really well until some guy grabs you by the throat and shoves that atomizer of yours in a place where the sun don't shine.

 

[herb]

I sense a reality show in the making. "Herb goes to India"

LOL, yes yes, i like it " The adventures of herb in India" or "herb takes India" .

 

[herb]

I coulda used a fella like you back in '86. We could have sprinted through the crowd -- on your heels while you heave the rabid masses aside like rag-dolls. Oh the humanity!

Back in 86 i was watching the "Mets" in the World Series , i would happily heave the masses of "path clogger's" to the side afterwards though.

 

[sonicbomb]

View attachment 519675 I would use the OP's situation to finally dress in this (wouldn't get many opportunities otherwise...)-

Why would you need an excuse?

 

[WharfRat1976]

Ask a vapor for the time and he or she will tell you how to build a watch☺

 

[sonicbomb]

Lol, their eyes glaze over as they are swamped by a deluge of technical information...

 

[Bad Ninja]

View attachment 519675 I would use the OP's situation to finally dress in this (wouldn't get many opportunities otherwise...)-

 

[Flt Simulation]

ttt

 

[EvilZoe]

As bad as a group of smokers can smell, it will NEVER be worse than the combination of really cheap full strength cigarette chain smoked for hours and cheapo vanilla cologne.

Seriously, BARF CITY.

 

[K_Tech]

I prefer to use a machete.

Air horns are so much more fun, and you don't need to wear a raincoat.

 

[EvilZoe]

Air horns are so much more fun, and you don't need to wear a raincoat.

But the "thwack-splat" sound of the machete through meat is so satisfying and you don't have to run all THAT fast away from the scene, especially if you dump your rain coat/large Hefty lawn bags in areas where shady people are known to hang out.

 

[greasegizzard]

Vapor shields and telekinetic clouds? Obviously I'm using the wrong mod and tank. Seriously, though... Maybe just stopping and asking to join them for a "smoke" would be the best way to disperse the crowd permanently. Chances are at least one of them is interested in vaping but just doesn't know where to start.

 

[EvilZoe]

What I usually find when I join the smokers is that they've tried some crappy drugstore-type vaping device and have decided that vaping won't work for them. It's really depressing, but when I think about it, I was extremely lucky that I got really interested right away and found THIS place the first night I got home. Most people aren't research fanatics like I am.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

Yes, I'd actually prefer for cigarette smoke to be as foul as possible, because it cements my determination not to ever indulge in making that smell again myself. But I do whatever I can to insulate myself from the smell. Walking thru it outdoors isn't that huge a deal, but I would never want to be in an enclosed space with it, because it would get into my hair and clothes and linger.

I agree that the awfulness does seem to lessen with time; when I first quit and finally got free of that smell in my personal orbit, the scent almost made me gag. Now it's just a rather vague distaste; there are a great many worse smells! And since I no longer have a noseful of cigarette smoke, I can smell them all too clearly.

Andria

It's funny you wrote that about wanting them to smell and taste as bad as possible, this weekend I was browsing through an issue of National Geographic and there was an article in there about sweets. While flipping through it a certain word jumped out at me and it was you guessed it "Vaping".

Basically the paragraph afterwards stated how the smell and taste of cigarettes was one of the biggest factors in keeping people (wrote teens) from smoking. And since vaping has sweet flavors it would be more likely the (wait for it) children to start using nicotine where if cigarettes were their only option wouldn't have.

I was disheartened to say the least I have always appreciated NG for the science based articles but that was the most ridiculous thing I have ever read in one. If the smell and taste were such a huge deterrent none of us would be having this conversation since we never would've started according to them.

I'm not saying that now as former smokers the smell and taste aren't motivators to not start back up, but the idea that it keeps people from ever starting is far fetched at best.

 

[EvilZoe]

It's funny you wrote that about wanting them to smell and taste as bad as possible, this weekend I was browsing through an issue of National Geographic and there was an article in there about sweets. While flipping through it a certain word jumped out at me and it was you guessed it "Vaping".

Basically the paragraph afterwards stated how the smell and taste of cigarettes was one of the biggest factors in keeping people (wrote teens) from smoking. And since vaping has sweet flavors it would be more likely the (wait for it) children to start using nicotine where if cigarettes were their only option wouldn't have.

I was disheartened to say the least I have always appreciated NG for the science based articles but that was the most ridiculous thing I have ever read in one. If the smell and taste were such a huge deterrent none of us would be having this conversation since we never would've started according to them.

I'm not saying that now as former smokers the smell and taste aren't motivators to not start back up, but the idea that it keeps people from ever starting is far fetched at best.

National Geographic was bought out by Fox Entertainment Group last year. This saddened many of us because Fox tends to use its media to put for whatever agenda they are pushing instead of shooting for impartial truths and equal time journalism.

What's sad is that vaping is traditionally attacked in the political arena by Democratic lawmakers and now there are those on the other side of the aisle ALSO attacking it.

Which just really goes to show that when it comes to profit and power, neither political party in the US is actually FOR the population and mainly represents corporations and their rich lobbies.