Why analog

[Driver]

Why are regular cigarettes called analog?

If we all agree their bad ( cigarettes ) why put a passive name on them, why not cancer sticks, coffin nails or cigarette's.
Electronic cigarette is a e cig, that makes sense. Didn't big tabacco try using passive and elusive words also even down right lies. I realize its just a forum but this was my introduction ( think first impressions ) to ecig's. It feels to me like when my son says "I'm going over to Joe's house for dinner". What he meant to say was I'm going to Joe's house because his dad lets us smoke pot and drink beer, it's ok dad I'm 14 and I know everything. This is just an example don't get all excited and start arguing the benefits of pot and beer. See I called it pot.....omg. What ever happened to straight talk just call it what it is. A rose by any other name... Just my .02

 

[SirVette]

Evidently someone who didn't know the diff between analog & digital started it. When someone that does know gets on the forum, depending on how it's used can give the impression some e-cigs are analog & some digital.
Using analog for cig. is a silly idea that needs to go. (someone has to say it)

 

[VPDownunder]

Lol, I thought the same thing, why not just call them what they are.

 

[jj2]

Ah, the age old question that, in the end, only causes .

 

[NCC]

When I was new to the forum and saw everyone calling them analogs, I followed suit. That didn't last long. I call them cigarettes, I mean, that's what they ARE. Neither do I use the term "electronic cigarette" or "e-cig" ... I call them PVs.

 

[Sylvie]

I still call them cigarettes, although I do try to be like the majority and call them analogs online since that is how they refer to them BUT, have to say I did find it confusing as a newbie seeing it referred this way at first..

Kinda like vaping, in the real world I still say I smoke, but add electronic cigarette at the end of it for now. I just find it weird to say I'm vaping I guess and like you, I prefer straight talk too..

 

[Rusty]

I call real cigs turds!! Stinky, awful things that are bad for you if sucked on

Also turds are ....-logs

 

[jj2]

I just say that I use the e-cig and it produces vapor not smoke.

 

[radicaljd]

Actually, I think it would be better politically to abandon the terms "electronic cigarette" and "e-cigarette" altogether. As it is now, the uninformed public lumps the PV in with tobacco cigarettes, which may contribute to the current movement to ban or regulate PVs.

The PV has nothing in common with the tobacco cigarette, except the fact that the product is inhaled.

If you go are in a restaurant vaping, and the manager asks what that thing is, if you say it is an "electronic cigarette," he or she would be more likely to tell you to stop than if you identify it as a "personal vaporizer." Just speculation, I admit. Maybe I'll do my own statistical study, just for fun.

RadicalJD

 

[JoeChemo]

Electronic cigarette is a e cig, that makes sense.

Actually, that's also a misnomer. Some have the appearance of a cigarette and deliver nicotine to the user but they contain no tobacco and you don't smoke 'em. They're actually personal vaporizers (PVs). Attys = atomizers, cartos = cartomizers, carts = cartridges? No wonder newbies get confused. I guess the geeks who first latched onto e-cigs and got the ball rolling also got to choose all the buzz words.

 

[The Llanero]

I call real cigs turds!! Stinky, awful things that are bad for you if sucked on

Also turds are ....-logs

lol anallogs. Reminds of the saying "you'll smoke a turd in hell for that one".

 

[JoeChemo]

Actually, I think it would be better politically to abandon the terms "electronic cigarette" and "e-cigarette" altogether. As it is now, the uninformed public lumps the PV in with tobacco cigarettes, which may contribute to the current movement to ban or regulate PVs.

The PV has nothing in common with the tobacco cigarette, except the fact that the product is inhaled.

If you go are in a restaurant vaping, and the manager asks what that thing is, if you say it is an "electronic cigarette," he or she would be more likely to tell you to stop than if you identify it as a "personal vaporizer." Just speculation, I admit. Maybe I'll do my own statistical study, just for fun.

RadicalJD

I agree jd.

 

[NCC]

Kinda like vaping, in the real world I still say I smoke, but add electronic cigarette at the end of it for now. I just find it weird to say I'm vaping I guess and like you, I prefer straight talk too..

In the "real world", I say I'm vaping. In fact, if someone refers to it as smoking, I politely correct them. There is no smoke involved. That IS the huge advantage of vaping over smoking. No smoke.

To someone who is entirely unfamiliar with vaping, there might be a need to explain the difference. That's an excellet chance to do a little PR work and break it down for them. Those people are becoming increasingly uncommon ... glad to say.

 

[Upinthehills]

I think because what we're using is new, it's likened to being digital. The old way is analog.

I don't like analog and have never used it, I thik it's silly. I also prefer PV, but most people have no idea what you're talking about if you call it a personal vaporizer, so I've had to use e-cigarette in explanations.

 

[zbasspro]

You mean when you hit yours it doesn't give a reading of the mg you're vaping? I thought that was the whole idea......