I assure you that you don't have to be kissing someone to blow vapor in their face. I've been vaping indoors and it doesn't dissipate instantly. Safety isn't the only factor when dealing with public places. If I'm eating in a restuarant I don't want anybody misting anything in the air around me. I'm a grown adult and I can handle being in a public place without having to show off my shiny new pv. Pushing your love for vaping on others in a public place will do more harm than treating it like a cigarette. I have enough self control to make it through a grocery shopping trip without having vape. Having the attitude that you must vape anywhere and everywhere is borderline childish. A lot of people could care less that what your exhaling is safer than smoking. Your forgetting the most inportant thing here and thats the fact that its a "public place" not your place.
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I assure you that you don't have to be kissing someone to blow vapor in their face. I've been vaping indoors and it doesn't dissipate instantly. Safety isn't the only factor when dealing with public places. If I'm eating in a restuarant I don't want anybody misting anything in the air around me. I'm a grown adult and I can handle being in a public place without having to show off my shiny new pv. Pushing your love for vaping on others in a public place will do more harm than treating it like a cigarette. I have enough self control to make it through a grocery shopping trip without having vape. Having the attitude that you must vape anywhere and everywhere is borderline childish. A lot of people could care less that what your exhaling is safer than smoking. Your forgetting the most inportant thing here and thats the fact that its a "public place" not your place.
I agree with post 153 and 155, why do more damage and create more animosity to an already misunderstood and uneducated public about ecigs?
I've been using eCigs for about 4 months now and I will generally vape pretty much anywhere. I refrain at indoor resturants, but that's about it. I've had people start to get on to me for smoking inside a few times but, as soon as I explain that it's not smoke they've all let it go rather quickly. I think vaping in public and explaining it to as many people as possible is important right now to make sure the public doesn't make it illegal or anything out of ignorance like they supposedly have on airplanes already.
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I was in the non-smoking area of a casino a couple weeks ago and from 20' away an attendant said, "you can't smoke in here", which turned a few heads, so I said, "sorry" and put the 5v box mod back in my pocket. Casino folks have no sense of humar, so thought it best to comply intead of trying to negotiate the matter.
I live in California and hatred of smokers is permitted. We have cities that if you are outside and anyone doesn't like your smoking, you must put your cigarette out. So I am still a little gun shy when it comes to vaping in public. This was a fantastic thread and I read every page. Thank you.
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I live in California and hatred of smokers is permitted. We have cities that if you are outside and anyone doesn't like your smoking, you must put your cigarette out. So I am still a little gun shy when it comes to vaping in public. This was a fantastic thread and I read every page. Thank you.
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Sorry but I don’t agree and to be honest I think you are coming across a bit overboard. Perhaps you didn’t get the humor in the first sentence in WV2wins post. I thought it was heavily laced with tongue and cheek. Overall his post was spot on. I see very clearly that he advocates respect and I take that to mean consideration for the people that do not vape. I would ad that there should also be respect for the person that does vape. If WV2win had been in that same restaurant with you and had seen such behavior I would be willing to bet that he would be in their face calling them out about being rude. I have been to many places and have never seen the behavior you are alluding to. To me the most important thing about a “public place” is that it’s public. It’s not his or yours or mine or anyone else’s excecpt the owner. While I might not like some of the things others do in public, unless they are causing harm, It’s none of my business. It’s freedom.
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This just happened to me, and it was highly amusing. (Yes, I'm a jackass)
So I'm walking into the post office, taking one last drag off my VP before I hit the line of Doom and Destruction. I slide my PV into my front shirt pocket before I actually get to the line - As I really don't want to vape in lines or crowded situations usually - and I hear this 40+ year old lady yelling in a comically "tattle-tale"esque voice "THAT MAN IS SMOKING IN HERE!" Now... The PV is already in my pocket, and I couldn't help but grin and say "What!? Where'd it go!?" She retorts "IN YOUR POCKET!" ...Now, at this point I lost all control and started slapping my shirt pocket repeatedly saying "Ow! OW! Hot! HOT!!" ...silence - except for the other Doom-Riders making noises I can only describe as the grownup giggles.
She finishes and walks off in a huff, saying nothing after her initial outburst at being apparently infiltrated by Demons who breathe vapor of pure evil and laugh at her distress. When I get to to counter the attendant, who I've seen many times before, asks me in the sweetest Southern Old Lady voice "Was that lady a hollerin' at you?" I say yes, and show her the PV that incited such devastation. To which she replies "Ohhhh yeah, those are fine," and we went about our business.
It was a lovely pick-me-up halfway through a long, long Friday
So I'm walking into the post office, taking one last drag off my VP before I hit the line of Doom and Destruction. I slide my PV into my front shirt pocket before I actually get to the line - As I really don't want to vape in lines or crowded situations usually - and I hear this 40+ year old lady yelling in a comically "tattle-tale"esque voice "THAT MAN IS SMOKING IN HERE!" Now... The PV is already in my pocket, and I couldn't help but grin and say "What!? Where'd it go!?" She retorts "IN YOUR POCKET!" ...Now, at this point I lost all control and started slapping my shirt pocket repeatedly saying "Ow! OW! Hot! HOT!!" ...silence - except for the other Doom-Riders making noises I can only describe as the grownup giggles.
She finishes and walks off in a huff, saying nothing after her initial outburst at being apparently infiltrated by Demons who breathe vapor of pure evil and laugh at her distress. When I get to to counter the attendant, who I've seen many times before, asks me in the sweetest Southern Old Lady voice "Was that lady a hollerin' at you?" I say yes, and show her the PV that incited such devastation. To which she replies "Ohhhh yeah, those are fine," and we went about our business.
It was a lovely pick-me-up halfway through a long, long Friday
When I first got into ecigs I wanted to share it with as many people as possible but now I'm mostly a stealth vape as getting funny looks and comments gets old after a while.
Restaurants, stores, (most) bars, etc are "open to the public", but they are not "public places". They most definitely belong to someone else.
Restaurants, stores, (most) bars, etc are "open to the public", but they are not "public places". They most definitely belong to someone else.
I stand corrected. I was responding in context to the post.
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I vaped in Joann Fabric yesterday- to the DELIGHT of the gals working there. Generally I don't vape in stores, but they asked about it. They all thought it was the coolest thing ever- and yes I passed along ECF info
This just happened to me, and it was highly amusing. (Yes, I'm a jackass)
So I'm walking into the post office, taking one last drag off my VP before I hit the line of Doom and Destruction. I slide my PV into my front shirt pocket before I actually get to the line - As I really don't want to vape in lines or crowded situations usually - and I hear this 40+ year old lady yelling in a comically "tattle-tale"esque voice "THAT MAN IS SMOKING IN HERE!" Now... The PV is already in my pocket, and I couldn't help but grin and say "What!? Where'd it go!?" She retorts "IN YOUR POCKET!" ...Now, at this point I lost all control and started slapping my shirt pocket repeatedly saying "Ow! OW! Hot! HOT!!" ...silence - except for the other Doom-Riders making noises I can only describe as the grownup giggles.
She finishes and walks off in a huff, saying nothing after her initial outburst at being apparently infiltrated by Demons who breathe vapor of pure evil and laugh at her distress. When I get to to counter the attendant, who I've seen many times before, asks me in the sweetest Southern Old Lady voice "Was that lady a hollerin' at you?" I say yes, and show her the PV that incited such devastation. To which she replies "Ohhhh yeah, those are fine," and we went about our business.
It was a lovely pick-me-up halfway through a long, long Friday
The first people I explained what my PV was were the postal workers. My Postmaster and 2 more employees are smokers, let me rephrase that, "former smokers". They were the first people I converted to PV's. I can vape in the post office but I am respectful of other people that happen to be there at the same time. My Postmaster will call me any time I have a package come in (they know I'm buying more goodies, which I do share some with them).
If the anti's would be respectful the majority of us PV users would be respectful. We must continue to educate the public and continue to be respectful of others.
I'm surprised she didn't say, "Well, bless her heart." That's the ol' southern way of saying "Loser!"
CASAA has a pamphlet I believe that you can download and print for handouts. Check their forum: CASAA
ha! funny! i thought about trying to find one of those TV brand PVs, as it came with a little laminated card that says THIS PERSON IS NOT SMOKING. THIS IS A PERSONAL VAPORIZER DEVICE.
it was great in the ad, some cheesy old guy on the plane handing over his little badge and the stewardess is like OH OKAY SIR.
it was great in the ad, some cheesy old guy on the plane handing over his little badge and the stewardess is like OH OKAY SIR.
Airlines not allowing vaping I can understand: You're tightly packed together with dozens of strangers in a pressurized metal tube hurtling through the stratosphere, reliant on oxygen supplied by the aircraft. Then, someone starts filling your space with some sort of vapor. Is it a biological weapon? Poison? Smoke from a bomb fuse? Is he middle eastern? I'm gonna die today! Air travel culture is not ready for vaping, I would not be surprised if a flight was diverted and someone arrested for vaping while flying. It's still a post 9/11 world folks, we're not going to convert folks by scaring them. Hell, PVs will likely be banned from carry-on for fear that it could be a disguised weapon.
Post offices are allowing it? That's huge. Although the postal service operates entirely on the price of postage (not one dollar of tax money), it's still a federal institution. That means post offices are federal buildings. Tread carefully, if vaping were to be banned in post offices, it won't help public opinion.
Shouldn't this thread be in E-Cigarettes in Public ?
Post offices are allowing it? That's huge. Although the postal service operates entirely on the price of postage (not one dollar of tax money), it's still a federal institution. That means post offices are federal buildings. Tread carefully, if vaping were to be banned in post offices, it won't help public opinion.
Shouldn't this thread be in E-Cigarettes in Public ?
I am the only one that vapes where I work. I don't do it out in the open but when I walk in the cooler or freezer to grab something I sneak a vape or two. Otherwise I just go outside. I let a few people try my riva with lr cartomizers at work and they coughed like hell.
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