why do we use the term e-cigarette?

[ThargorDraconis]

Just wondering with all the legislature and bans and politics that are going on why we shoot our cause in the foot by using e-cigarette?
we want to push the fact that it is safer, healthier, and with the exception of tobacco extract juices, not a tobacco product in any way but we still use a tobacco related term to name the devices.
Am I dumb or does this make sense to anyone else?

 

[inanitydefined]

I prefer the term "nicotine fog machine"

 

[Craybee]

i've always been partial to "super electronic nicotine delivery stick"

 

[Dominique Hoogduin]

Just wondering with all the legislature and bans and politics that are going on why we shoot our cause in the foot by using e-cigarette?
we want to push the fact that it is safer, healthier, and with the exception of tobacco extract juices, not a tobacco product in any way but we still use a tobacco related term to name the devices.
Am I dumb or does this make sense to anyone else?

its because of the cigalikes.. Its what gets new ppl into vaping and for some gets kids into smoking.

Here locally the first place where u get in touch with e cigarettes is the place where u buy your smokes.. and they mostly have cigalikes. The term e-smoke doesnt do it justice either.. its not smoke .. and some ppl react the same as my cat when they accidentily cross paths with a vapor cloud.. it looks like smoke so it must be.

 

[Archon]

It's just the name that's been established. When they were invented they called them "electronic cigarettes" because it was clear and smokers knew, well, sort of knew, what it was. It was supposed to be "like" a cigarette. I think it just had to do with marketing to start getting people interested.

Nowadays though, I think the community needs to separate itself as much as possible from words that associate with tobacco products and smoking.

We already call ourselves "vapers" as opposed to "smokers" and a lot of us online refer to our e-cigs as "personal vaporizers" or PV's and APV's. I think it'll just take time for the new terminology to settle in.

 

[GeorgeWachsmuth]

I dont. I use "vaporizer". (Vaping on my vaporizer)

 

[inanitydefined]

What about Personal Electronic Nicotine Inhalation System?

 

[Rickajho]

Let's see...


An e-cigarette was creating to be a healthier alternative to a... cigarette. Ok, now try to break that connection by renaming it and see how that changes - absolutely nothing at all.

 

[shelley cerata]

What about Personal Electronic Nicotine Inhalation System?

I see what you did there.

 

[ShadowDeku7]

It sounds modern. People like modern.

 

[HDMontana]

Wouldn't look so good abbreviated.

HD.

 

[mikeymop]

It's a fusion between old and new. Everyone can understand the term ecig as its a play between email and cigarette.
I prefer the Personal Vaporizer term however that make it sound like a weapon

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[Robino1]

Ah Grasshoppers.... Read and learn: Why It's Called An 'E-Cigarette' And 'E-Smoking'

Hopefully someday it will change but for now.... It is what it is. The media is starting to call what we do vaping. There is hope

 

[JaRod]

I believe the name is irrelevant, when you read "drugstore" you don't think of a place where you know.... the "other" drugs are sold....
People need no names when they see you vaping from afar to think you are smoking.....
Its decades of intense anti tobacco campaigning that embedded the thought of someone exhaling something other than air as evil, dirty, dangerous and the cause of all your woes.
So no matter what you call it, we have a battle ahead of us

 

[ThargorDraconis]

That was a very good read, thanks for the link Robino1.

Good answers all around guys, thanks!

 

[StephenMulkey]

Only cigalikes are called e-cigarettes. If you are using a mod or a vv/vw device it's called a APV or advanced personal vaporizer. I would even call an ego powered device a PV not a electronic cigarette.

 

[528muse]

I like the term nicotine inhaler. Yes its old fashioned, yes it isn't "exactly" inhaling, but the apparent motions are much the same as other inhalation-type devices, and that is exactly what it represents.

 

[CassiusCloud]

Might be because of the inventor,Herbert Gilbert back in 1963..
Although it was called battery powered cigarette back then..

Myself i just call it whatever it is at the time.

Hey man,You seen my VTR?
Hey man you seen my chi you?

Hey man what's that?
Oh that's banana cream pie and man is it good!

 

[BradJ]

Only cigalikes are called e-cigarettes. If you are using a mod or a vv/vw device it's called a APV or advanced personal vaporizer. I would even call an ego powered device a PV not a electronic cigarette.

I use the term for the device, a "vape". After a dozen times, my wife still says, "Huh?".

"Your E-cig, you stupid $%^&*!". (not really but I want to sometimes)

Ugh..

I agree Ecigs are the lookalike disposables.

Let's all try to agree on something. I like the term, "vape".

 

[CassiusCloud]

I would love to see e-cig go away and it be called what it actually is, rather than an easy manipulated name like e-cigaret..

That plays so much into the molding of thinking when these ...... politicians and authors of the news and all the rest of them that try making vape look like smoke..

If we want them to see vape ,we need to separate from what we left as much as possible..
otherwise it just looks like a different kind of smoking and not the different animal that it actually is..

We are taking breathing treatments, while our lungs are healing using vaporizers after we left the lung hogs.
That just burns them right in the britches pocket that holds their wallet..