I still tend to gravitate to the "Smokers Area" (smokers really do seem to be the more relaxed crowd) I guess it's partially because I'm a supplier, but while I don't vape obnoxiously, I DO vape publicly and make an effort to strike up a conversation with anyone who seems curious.
Most often, people see me vaping and come up asking where I bought mine. There isn't the Bambi vs Peterbuilt look or RCA Victor dog stare. It's more the familiar look of , "Hey, he's got one...I'm not gonna ask him...YOU ask him"
What's really funny is seeing new converts strutting their e-cigs in public, hoping someone will approach them and tell them to put out their cigarette. I was in an airport in Atlanta and saw a guy vaping a 901 INSIDE that little cancer-box room they have penned off for smokers!!! I actually got two gates down before I had to turn around and come back.
We started talking and at some point I said, "you realize, we don't have to be in this cage, don't you?" He got embarassed and said that he was so used to being told where to smoke it never crossed his mind that he was using an e-cig. Just about the time we both were feeling full of ourselves (still standing a full 10 feet from the cancer-room) we were approached by security and pointed back to the black tar cell.
"Why these are electronic cigarettes" we both said proudly. Mr Security Guy could not have cared less about our "right to vape" and explained that regular smokers wouldn't notice they weren't cigarettes and would start lighting up all over the airport because they had seen us do it. he said it in such a calm manner that we both felt ourselves shrinking as he spoke.
It was kind of like the teacher asking if you'd brought enough gum for everyone. It was a really big airport and neither of us had enough PV's for the people (now staring at the scene we'd created) from inside the nicotine stained glass room - much less the whole airport.
That was when I learned that vaping was not a license to be a jerk.
Witness, educate, share - yes.
