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I have followed the story of e-cigarettes and can only say it's eye opening, its probably very symptomatic to how things are done. It went from innovators and c
by nathias 5y ago
I have followed the story of e-cigarettes and can only say it's eye opening, its probably very symptomatic to how things are done. It went from innovators and communities to being large enough that the cigarette companies responded by a smear campaign, disinformation and panic, that was then used to regulate in a way that benefited only the cigarette companies. What a transparently corrupt world we live in.
- KingOfCoders 5y agoAnd everyone who doesn't want funny smells in their face. While since some decades cigarette smokers go outside, many ecigarette users spread funny smells without any empathy.
- Tenoke 5y agoThe smell from vaping is not comparable and it goes away quick, at least if you are not using some fancy liquid. Even if it doesn't, it's no worse than the smell of kebab which people are allowed to eat indoors.
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- leoedin 5y agoVaping indoors for any length of time leaves a sticky residue over everything - perhaps either nicotine or propylene glycol residue. Even ignoring the air quality issues for people who didn't sign up for it, it's not completely impact free. Maybe kebab also creates poor air quality and sticky residues, but in my experience people don't tend to eat kebabs continuously every 5 minutes through the day. I'm all for e-cigarettes as an almost-certainly-better alternative to real cigarettes (banning vaping but not smoking is ludicrous to me) - but allowing using them indoors does have a real impact on everyone else. Perhaps some are discreet, but the cloud chasing guys ruin it.
- Tenoke 5y agoI believe residue is just from big cloud VG. I certainly don't see any around my flat, if there's any it must be slower to build up than dust. If the impact is big enough sure, but it makes little sense to me to treat them harsher than anything else.
- richthegeek 5y agoBut if my colleague was sat at his desk eating a kebab for 8 hours a day, I'd find it problematic. Not everyone is as able to ignore sounds and smells as you might be. In particular the sound of someone vaping over a headset/phone makes me shiver.
- KingOfCoders 5y agoSo vaper says, non-vaper should not be annoyed by what they is doing? "Even if it doesn't, it's no worse than the smell of kebab which people are allowed to eat indoors." Shouldn't it be me to decide instead of you?
- mgr86 5y agoin Connecticut beginning 1 OCT 2021 business will require no smoking in public spaces. I know it specifically targets e-cigarette use indoors. But believe it also means no smokers outside the front of the office, or outside of the bar.
- nathias 5y agoYea lets put the same heavy regulation on shoes because some people are not taking their off when coming to visit ...
- MayeulC 5y agoI much prefer "funny smells" to regular cigarette smoke, be it for the smell of the cloud, the one it leaves on your clothes, or the aggressiveness of the smoke on your lungs.
- objclxt 5y ago> the cigarette companies responded by a smear campaign, disinformation and panic, that was then used to regulate in a way that benefited only the cigarette companies That and the cigarette companies just bought into the industry. Altria (AKA Philip Morris) owns 35% of Juul.