e-cigs. Is that to be discussed here?
Jul 14, 2015 | 11:42 pm
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e-cigs. Is that to be discussed here?
I'm not a smoker. I'm much worse than that. I'm a former smoker. So you know how much I hate you all. 
My wife quit smoking a couple of years ago by switching to e-cigs. Not the giant iridescent hookahs some people use for vaping, but the little white e-cigs that look like regular cigarettes.
I'm trying to figure out why airlines, lounges, etc. want these treated the same as regular cigarettes.
As a former smoker sitting anywhere near someone smoking just irritates the heck out of me. Can't stand it. But my wife can sit next to me in the car and puff on her e-cig and I'm completely unaware of it. So obviously they are not intrusive.
My wife sits in an airline lounge and holds her hand over her mouth so no one can see the e-cig and nobody in the lounge ever notices. Same on a plane.
So why the movement to ban them or treat them the same as regular cigarettes?
My wife quit smoking a couple of years ago by switching to e-cigs. Not the giant iridescent hookahs some people use for vaping, but the little white e-cigs that look like regular cigarettes.
I'm trying to figure out why airlines, lounges, etc. want these treated the same as regular cigarettes.
As a former smoker sitting anywhere near someone smoking just irritates the heck out of me. Can't stand it. But my wife can sit next to me in the car and puff on her e-cig and I'm completely unaware of it. So obviously they are not intrusive.
My wife sits in an airline lounge and holds her hand over her mouth so no one can see the e-cig and nobody in the lounge ever notices. Same on a plane.
So why the movement to ban them or treat them the same as regular cigarettes?
Jul 15, 2015 | 12:13 am
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Just for good measure, Frieden threw in two more problems with e-cigarettes: People who use them can expose kids, teens and pregnant women to nicotine via secondhand smoke; and enterprising smokers can put marijuana or hallucinogens in an e-cigarette “tank.”
From a CBS story in April:
The FDA says it has the authority to regulate e-cigarettes because they are tobacco products. It hopes to have rules that will include age restrictions finalized by June.
Jul 15, 2015 | 12:23 am
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I'm not a smoker. I'm much worse than that. I'm a former smoker. So you know how much I hate you all.
My wife quit smoking a couple of years ago by switching to e-cigs. Not the giant iridescent hookahs some people use for vaping, but the little white e-cigs that look like regular cigarettes.
I'm trying to figure out why airlines, lounges, etc. want these treated the same as regular cigarettes.
As a former smoker sitting anywhere near someone smoking just irritates the heck out of me. Can't stand it. But my wife can sit next to me in the car and puff on her e-cig and I'm completely unaware of it. So obviously they are not intrusive.
My wife sits in an airline lounge and holds her hand over her mouth so no one can see the e-cig and nobody in the lounge ever notices. Same on a plane.
So why the movement to ban them or treat them the same as regular cigarettes?
My wife quit smoking a couple of years ago by switching to e-cigs. Not the giant iridescent hookahs some people use for vaping, but the little white e-cigs that look like regular cigarettes.
I'm trying to figure out why airlines, lounges, etc. want these treated the same as regular cigarettes.
As a former smoker sitting anywhere near someone smoking just irritates the heck out of me. Can't stand it. But my wife can sit next to me in the car and puff on her e-cig and I'm completely unaware of it. So obviously they are not intrusive.
My wife sits in an airline lounge and holds her hand over her mouth so no one can see the e-cig and nobody in the lounge ever notices. Same on a plane.
So why the movement to ban them or treat them the same as regular cigarettes?
I think the purpose of this forum is supposed to be to inform smokers and vapers where they can participate in those activities, with a specific intent that it NOT be a place where people argue about smoking regulations or the pros and cons of smoking/vaping.
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