I am being unreasonable - about vapes - but feel I should get this off my chest

https://archive.thetab.com/uk/2023/06/02/phillip-schofield-clutching-on-to-a-lost-mary-is-cursed-and-these-tweets-prove-it-310683 🤣

I thought Philip Schofield puffing on his Lost Mary when he gave his woe is me interview after he got sacked, would have driven any street cred for vapes away!

I remember smoking at 13 🤢. I wanted to sound mature, so when people would ask why I smoked, I’d say “Oh, it’s to help with stress” 🤣. Erm, what stress?! I just repeated what I used to hear my Mum say but yes, I too thought I looked super cool with my nicotine stained yellow nails, smelling like an ashtray.

I’d never smoke now. No matter how ‘cool’ I might look.

I don't think either are good guys?

Agree. They look almost childish it’s like seeing grown men sucking on a lollipop.

I remember as a teenager people would say “ you’re only smoking to be cool.”

Well yes. That is why I started smoking. It looked cool.

Has anyone started smoking for any other reason? lol

I no longer smoke but the smell of cigarettes and beer takes me back.

It may be specific to me, I'll give you that, but I really dislike people blowing in my face, or forcibly breathing in my face. Yes, lung exhalations are all around - it's the force.

Vaping is so vile.

If you stand talking to someone smoking, they blow the smoke to the side, turning their head. It's not the law to do that. It's an act of consideration.

Vapers don't show the same consideration. Presumably because they assume that as the smoke isn't carcinogenic and smells of Cloudberry Daze, it's all good.

To be clear, I'm not a fan of smokers either really. But vapers vape more than smokers smoke, and smokers are more careful to try and minimise the impact of their habit on others. Not really fussed whether some of that is driven by legal obligation. It still makes them less annoying.

Am I the only one who is going to take up smoking cigarettes after this thread? The way people have described it sounds so appealing - “natural, earthy smell”, “The real deal” Plus, apparently I’ll look really cool 😎 and of course, I’ll be more considerate!

The contents of peoples.lungs is all around you all the time, you just can't see it. Vapour makes it visible, that's it.

Such a weird view.

Smokers have been forced to keep their habit away from the general population (for very good reasons.) They aren’t being considerate out of the goodness of their hearts. They are following the law. They have become social pariahs. I find it hilarious that they are now seen as considerate by some posters on here, when really they have been forced to skulk in the darkest corners out of shame and embarrassment. So no, not laughing at people’s experiences. Laughing at their perception of smokers as the ‘good guys’ compared to those pesky vapers.

I don’t like vaping or smoking, both vile habits.

Like others driving a car really, while walking down the high street.

Your habits don't give you the right to dictate what others can do.

That way lies fascism.

I do think vaping looks very silly. Sucking away on those pathetic little things. I hate the cloying smell too.

I also think vapers are more selfish than smokers. We went to a nice hotel in the Caribbean this year. Loads of gorgeous outdoor spaces and bars. Loads of areas clearly designated for smokers and vapers away from the busy areas. Yet it was the arsehole vapers that ignored this. They were sneakily dragging on their silly vapes when sitting at the bars, even in the bloody swimming pools. So incredibly selfish.

I'm finding it quite cathartic tbh. It's good to get weirdly specific shit off your chest.

I think some people on this thread should take up vaping in an attempt to chill the fuck out.

Getting that angry of this stuff is not normal.

I find vapers more annoying but I think maybe that’s just because nowadays you get more of them than you do smokers. And because smoking is more socially unacceptable, I think more (not all!) smokers are a bit more considerate. Whereas more (not all!) vapers are happy to puff the hideous smell in your face.

Cat's bum mouth

Vapers should go outside too after all it is a smoking device.

I also wonder what kind of drawstring mouths they're going to end up with when they're old. (Like Eugene in Preacher?)

Because smokers' mouths have deep wrinkles, and they're not pursing up and sucking for nearly as long vapers are.

YANBU.

Let's face it, smoking was cool. Jimmy Stewart wearing a sharp suit and smoking was undeniably cool.

Nobody, but nobody looks cool sucking on a vape.

It's the adult equivalent of a baby's dummy. Vapers have absolutely foul breath.

Not really. If people walked around coughing all the time, the droplets had a colour you could see, and you were downstream of it, you'd be pretty grossed out. It's the same with vaping. It's the contents of someone's lungs being forcibly exhaled in a stream in my direction, constantly.

I don't like people coughing in my face, I don't like them blowing in my face, I don't like breathing in their secondhand vape juice.

If people smoked in the same number that vapers vape, the target would still be on their backs, but now the behaviour has shifted to vaping.

In all seriousness, I don't really care what other people do as long as it doesn't impact anyone else, and well done for making a positive decision to improve your health.

Just be a mindful vaper and try and minimise the impact of the smog on other people.

You can if the windows are down, it's gross.