Well I'm labled as a druggy for vapping....

[DaMulta]

My son's best friend came over about 3-4 weekends ago for a day, and I was vapping around him. We went bowling, and I vapped while I was at the bowling ally. My son thinks it's cool, because I can smoke anywhere plus it doesn't stink to high heaven. I might of been working on some stupid little mod while he was here too.

Well his mom happens to be the schools superintendent.....

Well when my son gets home today, and my mom brought him home with the news. (My mom happens to be head of the learning disability department which also does not help.) Well your sons friends mom said that he can not come over anymore, because I'm a big drug user. Blablablabala........He's little friend came over, and told my mom this after school today.


So it looks like i get to take a drip down to the office and show off my PV to my sons friend/superintendent/moms boss.....

Fun Fun

Anything I should print off for her to read?

 

[Scaralouche]

well, i think you would have been okay if you were merely "vaping" in front of children. i think you get jail time for "vapping" in front of them... hmm.

 

[ratthevol]

Anything I should print off for her to read?

A xerox of your ... would be a good start.

 

[DaMulta]

Funny, Funny. This does happen to be my son's best friend/moms boss, and I really have to show it off in a good light to her.

I could make a stop at her office in the morning.

 

[wv2win]

Anything I should print off for her to read?

The articles by Dr. Whelan and the one by Dr Seigal.

 

[eplanet]

The articles by Dr. Whelan and the one by Dr Seigal.

Yea, those are good articles, If your son's friend's mom, or whoever is uneducated on the device, they will see it in a bad light...You can give her the articles and just explain what it is...if she does not get it then she just has some issue's....

 

[trog100]

well technically you are a drug user.. the terminology is boll-cks.. anyone that takes an aspirin is a drug user... anyone that "drinks" is a drug user..

we are pretty much all drug users... so what is the womans problem.. ??

i can see where the woman is coming from tho.. its possible you might well be a bad influence on impressionable kids.. legal drug use or not..

with tobacco you would just be a smoker.. one step down from the devil.. now you a "drug" user sat right next to him.. try and see yourself as the mad cloud puffing vaper who makes his own nasty things in the garage.. is that so far removed from the truth... he he he

trog

 

[jboze]

I don't recommend taking the high and mighty approach. Just stop by and try to be very polite and show your PV to her. Explain it a little if she asks. Just tell her it's a tobacco replacement or something. As long as she isn't a total idiot she should be curious and understanding of the situation.

Also, tell your son to beat his friend over the head for tattling on you. Kids these days....

 

[DaMulta]

I plan to tell her that it's more or less a nicotine inhaler that is based on Propylene Glycol. Which just happens to be used in Hospitals to disinfectant the Air. It's also used in medical devices such as asthma inhalers tooth paste, mouth wash, in some foods.

More or less flavor is added into it from common food additives, and mixed into PG. Nicotine is also added into it to help you quit smoking harmful cigarettes. When you inhale it pretty much all the Nicotine is inhaled, and what you exhale is more or less just water vapor that dissipates really quick.

Some Airlines have been handing them out for people to use during flights, and some hospitals are starting to use them for smokers so they don't go with high withdraws.

 

[Duckies]

Anything I should print off for her to read?

Agreed to what was posted above. If she mentions the FDA, here is a good backup to have handy:

FDA smoke screen on e-cigarettes - Washington Times

That is the Washington Times OpEd from Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health in response to the FDA.

I would not lead with this though -- in the offchance she doesn't know about the controversy. KISS.

 

[MissVapor]

that's funny ...at school they label cigarettes as drugs..one day my neighbor said her daughter came home after a drugfree workshop thing in kindergarten and her daughter said..mom , I told them you smoked drugs...(cigarette) she was so embarrased!

 

[jboze]

Nothing like a lil' scare tactics to edumacate your childrens. Stay away kids! They're drugs!

 

[lauraeleven]

Sheesh, I was recently at a function for Hospice of central florida and I was vaping outside and people were just mobbing me happliy with questions about the e-cigs...they were blown away by it!

 

[DaMulta]

O I got a good story.

My sister, and her husband was called to school a few years ago. They told my step niece that smoking was a drug during one of those drug day talks. Then she started crying saying that her step mom, and dad used drugs all the time. They used them around her all the time...not one time asking what it was. They called the cops up to the school, and everything. So not only did they have to face the school, but then they had to face the police about cigarettes....

 

[Shreck]

Is this seriously what this world is coming too? Vaping being less harmful than smoking, I am assuming that this woman is telling her child that he cannot hang out with his best friend at your house because you smoke?
God forbid anyone ever have a beer while your kids have friends over. Im sick of all these holier than thou Pri*k5!!

Hope she doesn't have you arrested for bringing your drugs into a school zone. ( seriously!! )

 

[The Wrong Man]

If there is one guaranteed, 100% certified way to get a kid to take a drug, it's to tell them that it's a nasty illegal drug. I've been a caffeine addict all my life (much longer than I've been a nicotine addict) because when I was 8, one of my teachers at school told me that Coca Cola had ....... in it. I drank 5-10 cans a day for 2 years until someone got round to telling me that she was lying. By then it was too late. 25 years later and I still do 10-15 double espressos a day.
TWM.

 

[harmony gardens]

DaMulta,,, if it's any consolation,,, you're good in my book.

 

[yknotagain]

Does she drink coffee? Caffeine is one of the most addictive drugs known. "Drug-free zones" - yet coffee is never banned in schools.

 

[Reillj]

Just be cool about it, DaMulta. Show her the articles, and show her the device. I'm sure the kid was just confused. My step-father thinks these things are awesome because I've got my mom to try it, and he even called me to let me know that when I left his house it looked like my Janty Stick was a .... in the car.

I think people still do not understand these devices. You are going to be the first impression, and if you are cool about it, they will thin they are a good idea too.

It sucks, that we have to explain ourselves all the time, but I think it might be worth it.

Good Luck!!!

 

[happily]

yes.......go with nicotine inhaler just like for asthma. A caffeinated soda has way more **** in it than these and make sure she knows there's propylene glycol in her ice cream and toothpaste

I did like the xerox of the ... idea too.