When they do a study on how children with various life threatening medical conditions react to all the compounds in vapor, then we will know.
IOW, we will never know.
When they do a study on how children with various life threatening medical conditions react to all the compounds in vapor, then we will know.
I don't need a kid in a waiting room going into seizure to know blowing a cloud of strawberry malt with a touch of orange pineapple was a bad idea when he can't be exposed to strawberries.
OK, I withdraw the ignorant comment as it applies to you. You have shown it does not apply. I don't even want to pick a word for this because as I said all I can come up with would be name calling. [...]
But if someone had a known allergy to something I was using I wouldn't use it around them.
If you know that he's allergic to strawberrys, I agree that you shouldn't take the chance. But I'm not going to assume that every kid I see must have that sort of allergy.
Can you show any actual examples of a kid having an allergic reaction to someone vaping near him?
Why are people being labeled as ignorant when they disagree with your position on SHVs harmfulness? Before I switched to vaping, I had done tons of research on it simply b/c I didnt want to substitute one poison with another. And I continue to do research on this. So far, although I agree that vaping is more likely than not to be harmless but I have not seen concrete evidence that would allow me to announce to the world unequivocally that vaping is not a concern. Its not always that one side is ignorant when two parties disagree. We just disagree.
I think everyone has a right to do as they please until it infringes on another person's right to do as they please.
I don't think you have a right to send a cloud of vapor into my face.
This is exactly what will get vaping banned and there is just no reason for it.
Possible but I haven't heard of any flavoring allergies that bad and while there are some PG/VG allergies I haven't heard of any that extreme.
I think it would be more likely to happen to a vaper and it won't necessarily be limited to an allergy.
I'm going to stand by the ANTZ insinuation for now. To be clear, I don't think anyone that has participated in this thread is full on ANTZ, but I do think statements in this thread do support the ANTZ position.
Good question.. I just don't know.. I'd defer to the doctor but I'd probably be unsure about it. Probably because I have not quite become used to the idea that vaping isn't going to kill me like my 2 packs a day were going to. I'll get there in time.
First, I break up your post b/c it is easier, IMO, to follow the debate. Especially for long posts. Otherwise its very tedious and confusing for everone, IMO. Having said that, if you feel / think that any of my citation of your post is misleading or otherwise do your post injustice, please feel free to alert me of that and Ill gladly correct it. Ill not break up your post this time well see if this is better.
Second, you have obviously confused me with another poster when you say when you are blaming vapers for your prediction of the end of vaping that is anti-vaper. I have never made any prediction as to the fate of vaping. Never!
Third, calling anyone ignorant, it is an opinion, not fact based. How can that be fact based when the same person being called ignorant by one group can be called a genius by another? Just for example, I will call Todd Akin (you know the legitimate rape guy) ignorant but I am sure his supporters will not call him that? So how it is based on fact? Its purely a persons opinion.
Fourth, I also disagree when you say LOL, my "different standard" doesn't parrot what the negative articles say. My "different standard" is the standard of science not public opinion.
I take that you mean that there have been scientist studies that point to the harmlessness of SHV and therefore its a matter of standard of science now but not a matter of public opinion. Well, as I have explained, it takes a lot for scientists to really come to a consensus with a lot of things. One camp of scientists may conduct studies and conclude that X=Y. Low and behold, another camp of scientists may conduct their own studies and conclude that X is not = Y. Trust me, it happens a lot! Like I said before, as brilliant as Einstein and Neil Bohr were, two very intelligent scientists, they actually held quite opposite view on a very scientific subject! Do any one of them call the other unscientific? Ignorant? No they didnt. Do we call any one of the two unscientific? Ignorant? No we dont. One scientists fact can very well be another scientists friction. It happens a lot.
So, its a weak argument to say that b/c some studies out there have indicated that SHV is harmless and therefore it is now an undisputable fact! 15, 20 years or even longer in scientific studies on subjects such those regarding health and physiology are more of a norm than exception! Before I leave this post I feel that I must re-emphasize the fact that Ive never said SHV is harmful. And, I have never bought into any negative study only b/c it is negative just as I have never bought into any positive study only b/c it is positive. I scrutinize EVERY study with the same vigor and diligence.
Like a kid in a waiting room at his doctors office?
All I have said and all I suggest is specific to the scenario described by the OP.
On any given day in waiting rooms around the world, you will find people with the most extreme conditions.. just sitting there.. waiting to see their doctor. I'm my line of work. I have known many of those people. You mentioned peanut allergies.. well that is nothing compared to the issues that some people have that are sitting in one of those waiting rooms.
You know what? Vape where you will.. I really don't care.. but there really are places where you shouldn't.. I'm sure doctors will ban the practice on their premises soon enough.
Kids are growing up weak these days. I never heard of peanut, milk, gluten, perfume/cologne... allergies growing up; now, it seems some are terribly allergic to seemingly innocuous things...
Third, calling anyone ignorant, it is an opinion, not fact based. How can that be fact based when the same person being called ignorant by one group can be called a genius by another? Just for example, I will call Todd Akin (you know the legitimate rape guy) ignorant but I am sure his supporters will not call him that? So how it is based on fact? Its purely a persons opinion.
Fourth, I also disagree when you say LOL, my "different standard" doesn't parrot what the negative articles say. My "different standard" is the standard of science not public opinion.
I take that you mean that there have been scientist studies that point to the harmlessness of SHV and therefore its a matter of standard of science now but not a matter of public opinion. Well, as I have explained, it takes a lot for scientists to really come to a consensus with a lot of things. One camp of scientists may conduct studies and conclude that X=Y. Low and behold, another camp of scientists may conduct their own studies and conclude that X is not = Y. Trust me, it happens a lot! Like I said before, as brilliant as Einstein and Neil Bohr were, two very intelligent scientists, they actually held quite opposite view on a very scientific subject! Do any one of them call the other unscientific? Ignorant? No they didnt. Do we call any one of the two unscientific? Ignorant? No we dont. One scientists fact can very well be another scientists friction. It happens a lot.
So, its a weak argument to say that b/c some studies out there have indicated that SHV is harmless and therefore it is now an undisputable fact! 15, 20 years or even longer in scientific studies on subjects such those regarding health and physiology are more of a norm than exception! Before I leave this post I feel that I must re-emphasize the fact that Ive never said SHV is harmful. And, I have never bought into any negative study only b/c it is negative just as I have never bought into any positive study only b/c it is positive. I scrutinize EVERY study with the same vigor and diligence.
Well said, as per usual.
The bolded part caught my eye in particular because I've already witnessed ANTZ using that scent against Vapers. It's a set up. Sabotage.
See Vaper vaping at the smoke section with the smokers.
Smell Vaper when they come back inside and mingle.
Confirm, Vaper smells like cig smoke.
Confirm, ANTZ are right, due to first hand witnessing.
Sabotage, plain and simple.
How come every body who has this argument thinks that suddenly all of mankind has lost the ability to smell????!!!!!
I shouldn't vape in public because it LOOKS like I am smoking???? PUHLEEZE. One quick little inhale should tell anyone within 50 feet that I'm not smoking. I can smell cigarette smoke 100 yards away. This whole argument that it "looks like smoking" is laughable at best.
Did anyone else in the doctors office confront this woman? NOPE only the OP. Maybe the rest of the people in the Doctors office realized that vaping is generally nothing to get their panties in a wad over.
Let's give some people the benefit of the doubt that they have their own brains.
As far as no studies being done, perhaps you need to join CSAA and learn what research HAS been done and realize that there is no scientific reason for anyone to be concerned with second hand "vape".
I am not a smoker. I do not expect to be treated like a smoker. I will not vape directly into someones face. But I will not voluntarily submit myself to the same bans as someone who burns tobacco in public.
Here's the question. If we as vapers can't agree that vaping in public poses no significant risk, then how will we convince an already skeptical public of the fact.
The more I ACT like a smoker, my very actions tell the ignorant public that my second hand vapor poses the same risks as second hand smoke.
Public vaping bans are already here in some places. However, we all know just how "enforcaeble" those bans are. I understand where the OP is coming from, but last time I checked, the way one fights for one's rights is not to give them up voluntarily and hope we can convince someone to give them back to us later.
I personally agree to what Dimetri (the vaping greek) said in a recent interview. Instead of coming to town meetings armed with statistics and studies that most people simply roll their eyes and tune out, I would come up to the microphone, APV in hand, take a Huge Toke....Hold it and then exhale.....nothing. I would then ask the town council how they expect to enforce THAT!!!! An unenforceable BAN is a useless ban....Prohibition should have taught us that...
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You quoted something that I didn't remember saying like you treated it. I went back up to my post and you separated the previous qualifying sentence to make your point.
I didn't like having to go back up and find my post then, I don't want to do it now. It's not worth it.
Well the side you are on is saying vapers are going to be what gets vaping banned because they vape inside.
What is Todd Akin ignorant about. I'm sure he is ignorant about something. Everyone is, nobody knows everything. Ignorant is a state of knowledge on a certain topic, nothing more.
Scientists will probably never come to concensus on vaping. If you want to believe the side you seem to be believing you may as well quit. Even if their tests come out rosey they're probably going to lie about it. They've made their position clear.
If it takes 15-20 years for something wrong to come out with vaping a puff in a doctor's waiting room will still have no effect. Don't forget, concerts and haunted houses have been fogging kids for a very long time.
A kid in a waiting room at a doctor's office doesn't have a known allergy to me.
If the doctor called me up and said there would be a kid there with an allergy to strawberry scents I'd wash my hair with something else and carry a different tank.
But I'm not going to avoid peanuts everywhere I go because some kids have peanut allergies.
One of those "extreme" conditions in waiting rooms might be me on immune suppressants some day. Someone bringing a herd of snot nosed kids in like the last time I was at the dr could kill me some day or at least put me in the hospital. Should people stop taking kids to doctors, or should I be responsible for myself and wear a mask (actually they provide masks for sick people and none of those kids were wearing them)?
I know what's in waiting rooms, I'm there at least 6 times a year.
I already said my medical group includes vaping along with tobacco products. Technically you can't even use snus by their rules.
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I wouldn't see a problem if no vapor cloud were expelled in a closed space with potentially sick people with unknown conditions.
Those people's rights have not been infringed.
I agree 100 percent that you have the right to vape indoors, but I still believe that you should not because you are just making easier for the government to stop it. I do not know what the majority think about this, but the regulation is coming to stop internet sales of vaping products and this is what worries me the most.
Our rights in this county are being trampled upon everyday. You say inform the public that it is not harmful, that is not going to help because this country is only about money and there is no money in health. Big drug and tobacco have every politician in their pocket. I only want to be able to vape and I really do not care if vaping is not allowed where smoking is not allowed,
I just want to be able to buy what I need to vape and by blowing all these clouds indoors, you just helping the regulators stop us so why do it. You can believe your rights are being violated and they are, but it will not help. It's all about money and just is no money in being healthy. Believe this or not the truth in this country went to die as soon as they signed those documents on July 4 1776.
So, I think we should get ready to buy as many mods and rba's as possible because soon you are not going to be able to get them and that is a shame but it is going to happen whether we like it or not. You can count on it. That is my position on this entire discussion. " Something Wicked This Way Comes" YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK.