I try to be a vaping ambassador. I carry a extra drip tip to let people try vaping, and while I hate the smell of smoke now I usually go out with smoking friends to talk and convert. So far I have got about 8 people vaping and about 17 to try it. I think this is important because we are so grass roots.
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Only because they snub me first! I'm nice, I smile, I make eye contact, and they just leer at me. It's like the cliques in high school all over again. So fine. I'll just go over there and hang out with the nonsmokers!My oh my, we now having vaping snobs?!?!
How soon some forget from where they 'came from' and the crap they caught there...
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The only place where I have vaped with smokers is at a hospital. Although I could vape inside, I prefer the company in the smoking area and don't wish to alert the hospital to the fact that I have nicotine juice on me (it's a psych ward). Everyone is fascinated, many try it, and all of them are planning to get one now.
Other than that I smoke indoors. Cafes, pubs, airports, train stations and trains. Nobody has approached me in those contexts and I vape openly most of the time. I only stealth vape in occasions when I couldn't be bothered explaining if someone did approach me.
Other than that I smoke indoors. Cafes, pubs, airports, train stations and trains. Nobody has approached me in those contexts and I vape openly most of the time. I only stealth vape in occasions when I couldn't be bothered explaining if someone did approach me.
My oh my, we now having vaping snobs?!?!
How soon some forget from where they 'came from' and the crap they caught there...
Love the guy on ECF that still cracks his car window as a homage to smokers
I swore I'd never judge. Not always easy when a smoker says something snarky about my PV. I get where they're coming from. It's nearly impossible to believe you can transition to vaping without the agony of a quit. Most already feel guilty and mad at themselves for smoking and the control cigarettes have over their lives. A happy vaper in their face makes some feel worse. They want to believe but it's scary and comes off angry. We get it.
Only because they snub me first! I'm nice, I smile, I make eye contact, and they just leer at me. It's like the cliques in high school all over again. So fine. I'll just go over there and hang out with the nonsmokers!
I absolutely despise(d) HS cliques! Even after 48 years post HS graduation and several reunions, my attitude, AND da cliques haven't changed much. BUT, when it comes to vaping and being a positive advocate, drop your ego and just be 'there' for anyone that shows interest. This is not a popularity or caste envy issue. It's all about being a level headed and understanding individual that has a tremendous potential in getting others off the deadly 'bakky. That's YOU!!!
All vapers are a life extending clique... I can handle that!
Well I would try to be there for someone, but I would probably be busy trying to find where I dropped my eGO.
Hehe, you took the words out of my mouthWell I would try to be there for someone, but I would probably be busy trying to find where I dropped my eGO.
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Hahaha!!! Well, I will vape in front of *anyone*-because who is it hurting, it actually makes the room smell nice (a relative came over the other day and said, "it smells so pretty in here!"-I was vaping peach liquid
Im glad you mentioned that, in all the pro-vaping re asons everyone lists, they mention vaping being oderless, so the liquids do give off an aroma? Do they all do this? I was curious because one time a desk clerk at my moms drs office called her at home and told her NOT to wear perfume as she was allergic. Im just wondering ( esp since in live s. calif where almost EVERYBODY has a problem with something) if anyone has every been bothered by the scent? I myself would love it if the tobacco flavors had a fragrance like those of the great pipe aromas I remember.
Some do give off an aroma. It really depends on what flavor, the level of your flavoring, the way your gear vapes it, and how long you hold it in before exhaling. The aroma goes away rather quickly though.
i vaped outside on my hollidays with a bunch of smokers and one person asked what it was the rest just carried on i too dont educate the masses unless asked as i am pretty new to vaping myself. the one pesron that did ask had a go and said thats it as soon as i go home i am quitting . so i hope i have saved someones health along with mine. the other thing was i didnt stink returning indoors like the other people did . i will never have a cigarette as long as vaping is around.
Vaping does have a scent and some can detect it, but it's not something that fills the room. I've blown vapor toward non-smokers when they asked about it. My non-smoking doctor allowed me to demonstrate mine in his exam room. I blew a good hit of RY4 in his direction and asked him if he smelled smoke. He said, "No, in fact I don't detect much of anything at all". After my demonstration, he did some research from my links and his AMA links and put some pamphlets in his waiting room with a poster card that said, "Trying to quit smoking? Try this!"
I vape in restaurants and fast food places, malls, and just about anywhere without objection. It's hard to stealth vape a Provari, but no one complains. I release the button right before I stop hitting (to minimize sidestream vapor), blow it downward across my shirt and it withers away.
I vape in restaurants and fast food places, malls, and just about anywhere without objection. It's hard to stealth vape a Provari, but no one complains. I release the button right before I stop hitting (to minimize sidestream vapor), blow it downward across my shirt and it withers away.
The one woman I can't stand at work wrinkles her nose and says "who's eating in here it smells like syrup".... it's my caramel cappuccino vape. I have no idea why she thinks it's syrup, but I'm not telling her. LOL Everybody loves my peach tea smell. My mother who we used to call the nic nazi always tells me it smells good when I'm vaping. It can fill a room, but unless you vape something that doesn't smell good, most people won't mind it.
Oh my goodness! How incredibly rude of the clerk! I would definitely change doctors after telling him about the complaint and phone call to my home
. How does this clerk deal with medicine smells and lotions etc. and other stuff. How does she go into department stores or take flights or other pubic transport? She is in the wrong job...
Oh my goodness! How incredibly rude of the clerk! I would definitely change doctors after telling him about the complaint and phone call to my home
I was thinking the same thing when I read that, but by the time I got to the end of the posts I forgot to comment on it. Wow, call you at home and say don't wear perfume?? I surely hope this was a very young person and someone got her heart straight about this one. I'm sorry she's allergic, but wow.
Wait a moment, people with allergies are entitled to work just as much as anybody else. The patients should have been notified by letter, and a sign on the surgery door, as a phonecall is rather invasive, but that is the only problem I can see.
Some medical conditions DO impede a person's ability to do a job (she could not work in perfume sales), but here the condition does not affect her ability to be a receptionist.
In the UK and Ireland she would have to disclose her allergy to her employer and he would be breaking the law if he discriminated against her. Furthermore he would be legally obliged to take measures to keep her safe and comfortable in the workplace, such as paying the cost of informing patients and putting a sign on the door. If this was refused she could take him to the cleaners at a tribunal. He could potentially be sued for damages if she got unwell at work due to his actions in relation to her declared medical condition.
I appreciate that the legal situation may not offer the same protections elsewhere, but at least some employers choose to follow similar principles of their own accord where that is the case.
Some medical conditions DO impede a person's ability to do a job (she could not work in perfume sales), but here the condition does not affect her ability to be a receptionist.
In the UK and Ireland she would have to disclose her allergy to her employer and he would be breaking the law if he discriminated against her. Furthermore he would be legally obliged to take measures to keep her safe and comfortable in the workplace, such as paying the cost of informing patients and putting a sign on the door. If this was refused she could take him to the cleaners at a tribunal. He could potentially be sued for damages if she got unwell at work due to his actions in relation to her declared medical condition.
I appreciate that the legal situation may not offer the same protections elsewhere, but at least some employers choose to follow similar principles of their own accord where that is the case.
As for flights, I have heard announcements from the cabin crew instructing passengers not to use perfumed products on the flight as they have a passenger on board with a severe allergy. Ditto instructions to refrain from eating nuts or opening packets of nuts. They would be in big trouble if they failed to make that announcement having been informed by the passenger in question if they had an allergic reaction.
You can assume this only happens in cases of very severe allergies where anaphalactic shock occurs, which can result in death.
I do not know how such people cope in many public spaces, but they do have a right to work and travel within reason. Suggesting that being asked not to wear perfume around them is rude is a bit strange.
You can assume this only happens in cases of very severe allergies where anaphalactic shock occurs, which can result in death.
I do not know how such people cope in many public spaces, but they do have a right to work and travel within reason. Suggesting that being asked not to wear perfume around them is rude is a bit strange.
woah, I'm not saying that the person doesn't have a right to work.... but for a clerk, to call a pt at home and TELL her DON'T wear it, is rude. First off, it's very uncommon that someone would have an actual allergy to all perfume. Although many people are sensitive. If this is truly an allergy did she call all patients? Or was she sensitive to this one patients perfume? If it was a true allergy, this is something that should have been handled by the doc or by his office manager, not a clerk. Now I didn't hear the conversation and perhaps the clerk didn't say it quite like the poster posted it. But if she did call a pt at home and basically order her not to wear perfume, yeah, that was rude, and not at all a professional way to handle the situation.
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