Why are people so inconsiderate with their vapes?

I smoke and vape, but never indoors, and never round other people.
If i want to do either when out and about i try and find somewhere secluded.
I do think its antisocial to expose everyone else to it, but i also think that most of society these days is self absorbed just doesnt give a fuck.

Same goes for phones on speaker, kids being allowed to run around screeching and making nuisances of themselves, loud music, pot smokers in city centres, the list goes on.

Eh? strange response. I was commenting on the 'imagine he didn't notice' bit not the intent stuff

Not me - I dont smoke or vape.

There are things that bug me about other people and in fact cause me some level of harm but that’s just life

And at some point some of you may learn that liking something is fine but expecting others to put up with your behaviour is selfish and inconsiderate.

I don't hold out much hope though. Smoking needed changes in the law just to get people to stop subjecting others to their habits, maybe vaping will eventually come with restrictions. And it'll be you lot whining then.

So what though? People whined about the smoking and now it’s much rarer, people are whining about vaping.

At some point some of you may learn that not liking something is fine but expecting behaviour to change as a result of your own personal preferences is futile

I don't really believe that they are a stop smoking tool any more. Plenty of people go straight to vapes and have never smoked. They are "the thing" in schools now. All the kids vape rather than smoke. My son is going into year 9 and says absolutely none of the usual smoking crowd smoke, it's all about vapes.

I can’t believe you’ve had to draw a diagram of a cafe and answer stupid questions about whether you know the person. Who cares about any of that - it’s just distractions from the fact that yes it’s gross and inconsiderate.

I can’t stand the awful sweet smells being blown into by face or wafting from people walking around.

if they want to put that in their lungs then go them. But don’t subject us to it. Was at a park today with the kids and sat on a blanket having a snack. Had at least three lots of people around us laid back and vaping, blowing their awful stink all over us. We had to move in the end.

yes I know they have the right to do it. It’s not illegal and it was in a public space. That’s why we moved. But it doesn’t make it considerate. I know some people who vape and will go away from groups and do it a bit more discreetly and do it doesn’t impact others.

I wish they weren’t scented. And I agree that they should be prescription only. Someone upthread said that. To actually help reduce smoking.

Calm down

The poster was commenting on the laughable “I stared at him with intent”

Intent to what? Grope him?

Or the small narcissistic world of ‘instead of speaking to a member of staff I will just glare at the person - that’ll sort it. Then I can tell MN how cool I was’ 🤣

The way some of these vapers talk is that they think it is positively good for them!

The usual race to the bottom is amusing on here. People quoting every pollutant from perfume to car fumes to justify their silly vaping habit!

Actually I don’t really give vaping a second thought on a day-to-day basis. I think people look a bit foolish, but that’s all really.

Ah yes the small narcissistic world of the I will vape where the fuck i like vaper. One of life's winners.

My kids are young adults and they find vaping very uncool. Maybe they just got lucky with their friends.

You did nothing creepy. I also find it fascinating that people are so okay with their kids vaping because they could be doing worse. I am very happy that my kids are early 20s and they absolutely have no wish to smoke or vape. It’s certainly not the norm where I am. I guess if you have a smoker as a parent, all this stuff is normalised.

No, you never mentioned smoking.

The thing is you can't understand the risk assessment vapers make unless you understand that they are using vapes so that they don't smoke.

It's like asking a heroin addict why they're not worried about the ingredients in methadone.

Some of you need to chill. Maybe grab a vape and join the party

For anyone old enough to remember the Kings Cross fire this is terrifying! I am appalled that you did no more than give him a hard stare. You should have alerted the nearest member of staff immediately.

Or do you mean he was vaping on the escalator?

Vaping is not banned indoors (although it is banned on TFL and national rail). It's not included in the smoke free legislation because there are not the same health justifications for doing so.

The new Tobacco and Vapes Act makes provision for ministers to designate certain areas vape-free following consultation. From the wording it is clear that this is not intended to be a blanket ban such as we have for smoking.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/18/section/145

Perhaps he’d have been correct 🤷‍♀️

He probably thought ahe was a pervert

This honestly made me laugh

can you clarify what “I stared at him with intent” looks like? @cococolo

I imagine he didn’t notice and if he did, he, along with others on the escalators, would have just assumed you were a sandwich short of a picnic

Yikes. Calm down.
No where did I say that smoking is not terrible. I never mentioned smoking once, so relax on that front.
Good for you that you trust your public health system more than ours. I trust mine more than yours. Go about your day.

I’m sure he didn’t give a shit that you were staring at him 🤣 If it upsets you that much, tell a teacher member of staff.

If the effects were really understood/ there wasn't this cognitive dissonance I really don't believe we would be driving.

If they were invented now the vape hyperbolisers on this thread would never want them to be legalised.

YANBU.

I saw someone smoking on the escalator at the tube station yesterday. I stated at him with intent.

Smoking has been banned indoors for so long, and yes that includes bloody vapes but they can't seem to comprehend this.

But people know the negative effects of driving. We admit them. And that's why we have electric cars and buses, and cycle to work schemes, and vehicle emission tax, and Greta Thunberg.

And that's why car emissions are definitely getting better in terms of exhaust pollutants and overall greenhouse gases. We are doing something about it.

As oppose to vaping, which almost every vapour on here says is just fine and everyone is lying about the effects on others and the big stinky clouds are the imaginings of the mean people trying to infringe on their personal freedoms and then crying "what about car fumes" when they have no other argument.