Why are so many people against non-smokers vaping?

[LKnives]

Seems weird to me. We know smoking is bad and we know, that at the very least, vaping is less harmful. So why the big thing I see about non-smokers looking into getting an ecig getting multitudes of people telling them not too? Doesn't that, in a way, give the wrong opinion to people outside of the vaping community the wrong impression? The huge stink made about don't start if you never smoked seems like it might get some minds a wondering as to why not? What's wrong with them?

I guess now that I am almost 8 months in I look at my nicotine habit like my caffeine habit. One bottle of soda a day does me good for the day and vaping whenever does me good for nicotine for the day.

I've had a non-smoking friend say he wanted to get an epipe for the effect and I told him which ones looked pretty good and worked well instead of berating him about how he has never smoked before and shouldn't. My thoughts have always been that at least the person isn't picking up smoking just to get nicotine.

 

[Mountain_Rain96]

I have a short, simple explanation. Some people are just control freaks, plain and simple, and think they are morally superior.

 

[darkstorm]

My wife is a diabetic and a non smoker. After smoking desert vapors around her she was curious how it tasted so I whipped her up some nicotine free chocolate peanut butter french silk juice. She now uses her vaporizer as an appetite suppressant in lieu of sugary snacks. Vaping has helped me quit smoking and has helped my wife lose 30 pounds. I believe there are others who could benefit from these amazing devices including some who have never smoked.

 

[meli.]

I started smoking for the wrong reasons, there were No right reasons.

So, although I don't tell people 'Don't do it' I do ask them to consider why they are choosing to do it.

Even if Vaping is better than Smoking, doing Neither or avoiding an addiction or habit is Better still.

 

[Mountain_Rain96]

My wife is a diabetic and a non smoker. After smoking desert vapors around her she was curious how it tasted so I whipped her up some nicotine free chocolate peanut butter french silk juice. She now uses her vaporizer as an appetite suppressant in lieu of sugary snacks. Vaping has helped me quit smoking and has helped my wife lose 30 pounds. I believe there are others who could benefit from these amazing devices including some who have never smoked.

My wife was never a smoker, but was also curious about how the 0-nic dessert flavors would taste, so she ordered some for herself, along with her own starter kit and extra batteries from V4L. She lost interest a couple of weeks later, and I ended up with all her goodies. I not only have my eGos and everything, but a bunch of 808 threaded batteries, chargers, 0-nic juice (which I mix with 24mg, 50/50) and a billion blank cartos. I still vape them from time to time, but they just don't compare, obviously. I'm not going to let them go to waste, though, I'll vape them all up, eventually.

 

[Ken_A]

I don't think that non-smokers should take up smoking. then again, I think that it's ok for them to take up vaping if they want to. Smoking is an on-ramp for vaping. If you can hit the vaping highway without a cigarette, then all the better. I watched a video last night about a guy that went from barely smoking to vaping instead and it improved his health because the nic is an anti inflammatory and his breathing problems have all but gone away. He also lost weight (probably because he was not blocking his air with smoke).

 

[gthompson]

Not sucking chemicals into your lungs is always better than sucking chemicals into your lungs, even if they are "less harmful" chemicals. If you don't have a habit, why start one? Knowing what you know now, would you have EVER smoked that first cigarette?

 

[gthompson]

I have a short, simple explanation. Some people are just control freaks, plain and simple, and think they are morally superior.

Or maybe some people care about other people?

 

[p-doze]

i liken it to alcoholics who switch from liquor to beer instead of just quitting alcohol entirely.

 

[Orobas]

I wouldn't recommend it but I won't throw a righteous fit about it either.

I believe all people should have complete dominion over their own person, even if their decisions may not be completely healthy or aesthetically pleasing to me.

i liken it to alcoholics who switch from liquor to beer instead of just quitting alcohol entirely.

Um. You sound like an ANTZ.

 

[mostlyclassics]

I'm of a basic libertarian bent, so I don't care if non-smokers want to take up vaping.

I would hope, though, that such people know what they're getting involved with before they hop into this particular pool.

If I'm asked, I give them information.

Just my

 

[p-doze]

I wouldn't recommend it but I won't throw a righteous fit about it either.

I believe all people should have complete dominion over their own person, even if their decisions may not be completely healthy or aesthetically pleasing to me.



Um. You sound like an ANTZ.

i wouldn't encourage someone that never drank soda to start drinking diet soda either. vaping is the lesser of two evils, but at the end of the day, you're still intentionally inhaling an addictive chemical that was labeled as poison when it was discovered, and is also used as a pesticide.

 

[Orobas]

Well that's fine. but talking about liquor to beer is a better analogy for vaping than it is for a non-smoking vaping lol

 

[p-doze]

instead of deleting my posts, i'll admit that i read non-smokers as 'former smokers, who now vape', rather than people that never used tobacco who now vape. but i still stand by my position that i would never encourage a non-tobacco user to take up vaping as a hobby.

 

[Cil]

We are fighting a battle against the FDA the MRHA in the UK plus other organisation around the world. The big phamrasutical companies would have a field day if the could tag Vaping as a gateway device. Non smokers taking up vaping would be another stick to hit us with. My $0.02.

 

[stillnotsmoking]

Not sucking chemicals into your lungs is always better than sucking chemicals into your lungs, even if they are "less harmful" chemicals. If you don't have a habit, why start one? Knowing what you know now, would you have EVER smoked that first cigarette?

I'll be honest, I probably would have still smoked cigarettes knowing even what I do now. And I have that right, just as anyone else (smoker or not) has the right to pick up whatever they want, put it in their mouth, and smoke, vape or chew it. Who are YOU to tell me, or anyone else what they should do with their life, their health, or anything else for that matter. /rant

 

[Topwater Elvis]

Mostly because non smokers being attracted to vaping for any reason is one of the many FDA concerns that directly relate to the proposed regulation / control / restriction / ban on e cigs & e liquids.

 

[p-doze]

I'll be honest, I probably would have still smoked cigarettes knowing even what I do now. And I have that right, just as anyone else (smoker or not) has the right to pick up whatever they want, put it in their mouth, and smoke, vape or chew it. Who are YOU to tell me, or anyone else what they should do with their life, their health, or anything else for that matter. /rant

as someone that purchases health insurance, i would rather see my premiums decrease than be spent on someone else's lifetime of bad habits who has never purchased health insurance but can always afford cigarettes, pizza, and soda.

 

[Kabooma]

I'll be honest, I probably would have still smoked cigarettes knowing even what I do now. And I have that right, just as anyone else (smoker or not) has the right to pick up whatever they want, put it in their mouth, and smoke, vape or chew it. Who are YOU to tell me, or anyone else what they should do with their life, their health, or anything else for that matter. /rant

when your group healthcare costs are shared by smokers, and you are one of those morally superior types, you start to think about how the smokers in your workplace affect your wallet.. not that I agree, but that's among the more reasonable arguments I've heard from non-smokers.

I also have a counter argument of sorts- Gasoline. The price is dictated by supply and demand, right? Well all those people who drive monster SUV's might be able to afford to suck 50 gal of gas a week, but my little 42mpg car doesn't, but I pay a much higher price because they are taking up more resources, making the price go up.

I don't think I really have a solid point, other than that we all share resources, and the actions of one can affect the costs of many. People should at least be more aware of that.

 

[Ravensfan]

as someone that purchases health insurance, i would rather see my premiums decrease than be spent on someone else's lifetime of bad habits who has never purchased health insurance but can always afford cigarettes, pizza, and soda.

Tomorrow the whole world could start eating nothing but tofu and drinking spring water and your premiums would still go up. The insurance industry is almost as brilliant as commodity speculators when it comes to making up reasons to charge more for their product.