So it occurred to me the other day that I was vaping when vaping wasn't cool and didn't even realize it. In fact I wouldn't doubt it if your grandma's a vaper and doesn't know it. Let me explain:
I spent close to five years during my early twenties managing two retail candy stores. 50% of all products sold in these stores were made in house by yours truly. For those of you who are perhaps unaware most flavorings, if not all, are already based in either pg or vg! Now...and follow my logic here...when you heat a sugar mixture to somewhere between a soft-ball and hard-ball temperature and then dump a teaspoon or two of these flavors into it what happens? A mushroom cloud of highly aromatic steam (...or vapor!) is released that's what. Not only did I and my employees inhale these fumes repeatedly each and every day but the stores I worked for could be considered guilty of intentionally subjecting the general public to them as well! You see there were fan hoods located over the stove in these stores and guess where they were vented to? The roof? Out the back? Negative...they were specifically vented directly into the common areas of the mall or shopping center in order to draw customers in with the aroma. In other words we intentionally crop dusted the general public with vaporized PG, VG and artificial flavors EVERY SINGLE DAY! In fact on slow days we would make multiple smaller batches specifically to keep that aroma in the air as much as possible.
Now in addition to this I know of one store in my immediate area which is similar to the ones I managed. It is located on the Santa Cruz boardwalk. In there case it is the boardwalk arcade getting crop dusted which is typically filled with literally hundreds of children! Oh the horror!!!
The one thing I truly miss about running candy stores is the fact that every customer who walked in the door always had a smile on their face. You know what I was never asked in nearly five years however? Not once did anyone ever ask or express any concern about the hazards of what I was inhaling! Nor did I ever once have an employee from a neighboring store or a customer express any concern what so ever!
I do realize the missing component here is the nicotine itself (unless you vape zero nic). However seeing as how virtually all of us are ex-smokers already addicted to nicotine it really makes me wonder how my local paper just published an article stating that the California Attorney General is now suing Smoking Everywhere under the basis that "e-cigs contain dangerous chemicals". As compared to cigarettes!!??? Hmmmm....somebody trying to preserve tobacco tax revenue and the already failing state budget??? Ya think??
I spent close to five years during my early twenties managing two retail candy stores. 50% of all products sold in these stores were made in house by yours truly. For those of you who are perhaps unaware most flavorings, if not all, are already based in either pg or vg! Now...and follow my logic here...when you heat a sugar mixture to somewhere between a soft-ball and hard-ball temperature and then dump a teaspoon or two of these flavors into it what happens? A mushroom cloud of highly aromatic steam (...or vapor!) is released that's what. Not only did I and my employees inhale these fumes repeatedly each and every day but the stores I worked for could be considered guilty of intentionally subjecting the general public to them as well! You see there were fan hoods located over the stove in these stores and guess where they were vented to? The roof? Out the back? Negative...they were specifically vented directly into the common areas of the mall or shopping center in order to draw customers in with the aroma. In other words we intentionally crop dusted the general public with vaporized PG, VG and artificial flavors EVERY SINGLE DAY! In fact on slow days we would make multiple smaller batches specifically to keep that aroma in the air as much as possible.
Now in addition to this I know of one store in my immediate area which is similar to the ones I managed. It is located on the Santa Cruz boardwalk. In there case it is the boardwalk arcade getting crop dusted which is typically filled with literally hundreds of children! Oh the horror!!!
The one thing I truly miss about running candy stores is the fact that every customer who walked in the door always had a smile on their face. You know what I was never asked in nearly five years however? Not once did anyone ever ask or express any concern about the hazards of what I was inhaling! Nor did I ever once have an employee from a neighboring store or a customer express any concern what so ever!
I do realize the missing component here is the nicotine itself (unless you vape zero nic). However seeing as how virtually all of us are ex-smokers already addicted to nicotine it really makes me wonder how my local paper just published an article stating that the California Attorney General is now suing Smoking Everywhere under the basis that "e-cigs contain dangerous chemicals". As compared to cigarettes!!??? Hmmmm....somebody trying to preserve tobacco tax revenue and the already failing state budget??? Ya think??
The price on tubes also went up accordingly.
