Where does everyone vape?

[yohann976]

The interesting thing that I'm noticing is that there seems to be a division between where people vape in public. This is only an observation and it's not totally black and white. I've noticed that a lot of people tend to stick with vaping where it's legal for smokers to smoke while others tend to do it almost everywhere.

It seems that we are not at odds with each other for where it's acceptable. Rather, it's more about personal preference. I've also noticed that the people who do vape inside public buildings, there's a respect for others.

 

[swedishfish]

I don't want to make it sound like I vape wherever the hell I please- I was never a huge public smoker and not a huge public vapor either. Not for any particular reason, just the way I smoked.

But when you think about it, the two biggest objections to smoking- smell & 2nd hand smoke- you don't get with vaping so really, people shouldn't object. If they do, they're the type of people that like to complain about everything anyway, but who cares about them!

My Mother (in her late 70's) is hilarious with hers. She just loves to whip it out and tell people about it. Maybe because she's older? People don't say a word.

 

[Rosa]

My Mother (in her late 70's) is hilarious with hers. She just loves to whip it out and tell people about it. Maybe because she's older? People don't say a word.

totally off topic:

My elderly relative used to sit in the back seat of the car and click her dentures at the folks in the car next to her. What is it with the elderly - they've abandoned their inhibitions I guess.

 

[Lambch3p]

I Try to be polite with my vaping. I usually don't need Niccotine that bad that I need to do it in a store, waiting room or nonsmoking restaurant. If I do I'll step outside. I might do it in a bar, if its freezing outside but that happens rarely in Florida. I have a cool boss who lets me vape at my desk so no problems there (I asked for permission first though). Vaping gets enough of a bad rap and it doesn't do any of us any good if we are rude with it imho.

 

[swedishfish]

totally off topic:

My elderly relative used to sit in the back seat of the car and click her dentures at the folks in the car next to her. What is it with the elderly - they've abandoned their inhibitions I guess.

I guess they figure, What the hell!

 

[Evie]

I haven't been at this long but I have vaped in the non-smoking section of a restaurant (at the host's insistence), inside my house (where I never smoked and only after my son is asleep - I need that five minutes every once and a while), and today at the shooting range

 

[lookin2quit]

Pretty much the only place I have vaped where you can't smoke is the bus/trolley stop. I figure in most other situations I've been able to go without so it won't kill me to refrain from vaping as well. The bus/trolley is different for me as it's outside and everyone knows the bus won't come unless you have a cigarette first, so to replace that cigarette I vape. Gotta make the bus come faster somehow, don't I

 

[arata]

I vape in my office (I have a door and keep it slightly open), my husband and I vape at night watching TV when the kids are in bed. We don't want them to see us, they don't know that we smoked analogs, but now we can vape in our home without the stink. I vape anywhere one can smoke and stealth like (2 draws) here and there. My husband and I got a quick nic fix in Ikea last week just browsing the kitchen displays.

 

[BigRed_6ft3]

I Vape any where I feel like.

 

[BigRed_6ft3]

I want the word to get out about Vaping. So every where and any where.

 

[GitMoe]

I now vape in my house where my wife never would've let me smoke. I haven't been out on my deck in 2 weeks. I went as far as to install a TV with cable on my deck last summer so I could watch baseball games while I was smoking. She still won't let me vape in front her in the house though. Which is weird but whatever. I vaped in a bar for the first time last night. The bar is owned by my friends father so it was a little different than a random bar. Her dad was actually there and ordered an E-Cig today.... lol. I probably sold 10 starter kits last night at the bar from all the people asking me about it. I stealth vape in public places but Im not obvious about it yet. I feel like I'll get more bold with it as time goes on....

 

[Sojourn]

I still go outside to vape but I have the option to vape inside when the weather is extremely bad. As for public, I only vape where smokers are. Non-Smokers as well as most smokers have no idea what I'm doing and it's just better overall to treat it like an analog.

 

[jbblack]

After seeing many of the responses here, I don't feel so timid. I kept most of my habits from when I smoked; so at work I still go off to the smoking area. Vaping's been unofficially blessed at the office but as I'm lower in the ranks and my area's quite visible to visitors, I just think it best not to (you know how it goes--they see it, they assume rather than ask, and by time word gets around to my supervisors it's magically turned from me grabbing a quick nip off a KR8 to my cubicle being an opium den. No, thanks.) I do sneak a little in the bathroom though if no one is around and I don't have time for a proper break.

I didn't smoke in the car or in my apartment, but I do vape in the car as it won't kill the resale value. And vaping inside has its advantages as opposed to going outside because I don't have to put up with neighbors I've never met constantly trying to bum smokes.

In public places and other peoples' homes, I tend to follow the same etiquette that a smoker would be expected to follow, with minor exceptions (see office bathroom, above). I'm not really interested in proving a point to anyone else, so while technically I probably could give a good argument for me being able to do it in a restaurant on the grounds of it not being smoke or a health risk, spending the evening making said argument would only detract from my own enjoyment.

 

[AgungHN]

I'm vaping in area that smoking are allowed.
Once i was vaping at gas station, and since pv was not so popular here they only ask 'did you smoking here?' so i tell them what is pv and how can be safety with that.

 

[acleaneroption]

I vape at my computer.......while Im writing this post./

 

[jamie70]

Wow,

How socially conditioned are we?! Coming from analogs many of us are stuck in the political correctness "smoking". Only a couple of weeks in I have the same problem. I was hoping to open this thread and get new courage to vape everywhere but I see that the conditioning is hard to shake for many of you too. So far I have treated vaping like smoking as far as public places (except for some stealth vaping at Walmart). I vape at home now, in the car. I have yet to pull out my e-cig at a restaurant, but I feel compelled to try it out.

 

[hairball]

Any place I want to.

 

[MadmanMacguyver]

I know someone who would say that but then again she was dumb enough to light up in a restaurant where the laws had gone no smoking but they forgot to remove the ashtrays got us kicked out cause she wouldn't put it out when they apologetically requested she extinguish it.

Me well I have stealth vaped in harbor freight and then took out my box mod outside while waiting for my wife...lol 22 people asked me what it was how it worked and where they could get one.
I Vape at home In the wife's minivan (no smoking in it) in my truck. I do preferr to go to a designated smoking area but there's an ulterior motive. If i just puff away on a black Half a brick what can anyone do and the smokers end up getting curious So I have fun getting the word out First time I haven't been kinda freaking out in public in years(I hide it well) Its kinda fun being the one people really want to listen to instead of the weird guy over there.

Although now I'm probably the weird guy over there w a neat new toy they want to understand then I'm just the weird guy again...lol

 

[hiram13pm]

I vape anywhere and everywhere. The only place I won't vape (where I actually would have had a cig, previously) is in a swimming pool; too easy to damage a pricey piece of hardware.

I'll stealth it, sort of... my all day unit is a clear box mod with a color-changing LED inside (cool as hell, the whole thing pulses red / blue / green when I hit it), but I'll switch to a plain black box when I don't want to be too obvious, like at the movies or in a froofy restaurant. Same goes for juice; all PG in those situations, so I minimize the 'plumes' and it's easier stealth.

If anyone complains, I'll knock it off, of course. If that's a business, I'll be taking my money elsewhere, too. The thing to remember is that there's a very small, very vocal core of anti-smoking zealots around, and there's absolutely nothing you can do to appease them. If we act like it's smoking, it's easier for them to treat it just like smoking and convince the rest of the public that it's the same as smoking. It's that "rest of the public", the vast majority of non-smokers who probably don't like smoke, are glad that some places are smoke-free, but don't foam at the mouth at the sight of someone firing a ....... those are the ones we need to reach out to. If they never see vaping in any other context than being stuck in the cold/heat with the other lepers, it's harder to convince them that yes, Virginia Slims, there is a difference.

Voluntarily segregating ourselves as if we were still smoking plays right into those ASH-holes' hand.

John Q. Nonsmoker sees a measure on the ballot to ban e-cigs under the same existing, draconian anti-smoking ordnances.
Scenario A: John has never seen anyone vape in any other context than that of a "smoker"
Scenario B: John has met and talked to vapers in situations where smoking isn't allowed. He knows it doesn't smell, isn't dangerous to him or his family, and probably knows and loves some smokers that he might mention vaping to because of those encounters.

How do you think he's going to vote?

 

[Nev]

I vape in my house (where I didn't smoke) and in my car (where I did). I have vaped at a restaurant (it was a vapers meet and greet) and in a couple of bars (but they allowed smoking too).

Probably my "ballsiest" vapes have been in our non-smoking break room at work. We have a management break room and there is usually only a few people in there. All reactions have been positive, but I did ask if it bothered anyone. Mostly I got congratulations on not smoking and a lot of curiosity.