To think that ALL smoking (cigarettes and e-cigs) should be banned in public places?!

[babybearsmummy]

I've been sat in my GP waiting room with my little girl waiting for my appt and in walks a lady puffing away on an e-cig. She hasn't put it away and is just sat smoking it.

AIBU to think this is rude and that, just because it's not an actual cigarette, the same rules should apply, mainly because it's stinking the whole waiting room out!?!

e-cigs dont smell, unlike babies who are a heady mixture of piddle, poo and posset plus they make a noise.

hers did.

And for the record my dd was freshly changed and was sat quietly on my lap sucking her thumb

Some e-cigs do smell, a lady opposite me on the train had a vanilla scented ecig. Anyway, YABU, e-cigs are not real cigs at all and unless the scent is offensive, they are no harm to anyone.

FWIW I know they arent real fags but I do think the same areas of abstinence should apply to indoor areas

Yabu.

They don't 'stink out' whole rooms. There may be a faint scent from some flavours and if it's not to your liking then too bad.

What would you do if she came in wearing a horrifically strong perfume that you didn't like? Clutch your pearls and ask for her to be removed?

Well then you would also need to ban coffee in public places as that has an aroma.

Why darling grace?

An anti-smoking thread with a new angle.

Oh, joy.

Smokers will never win will they?

I'd rather doctors surgeries banned anyone who persistently coughs without covering their mouths, sniffs their snotty nose over and over and clears their throat without disposing of the contents they've just hacked up.
I had to sit for an hour at the doctors last week between 2 people who didn't have 1 tissue between them.

Nicotine patches smell fucking awful. I assume people are allowed to use those in public and not be abstinent?

I'm not having a go at smokers, it just wasn't very nice having to sit in a confined space smelling her e-cig, which smelt a lot like a real cigarette. I don't think I'd have minded if it was vanilla, coffee or whatever other nice smell, but the fact that it smelt like a normal fag wasn't very nice and she could have popped outside for a minute.

I think e-cigs are great. I teach adult and youth education classes sometimes and I think it's better for everyone to have people not smoking on breaks and stinking the place out. However, some of the smells of the flavoured e-cigs are repulsive and really shouldn't be inflicted on everyone. I know it's U of me but that rank 'vanilla' smell.

Sometimes I forget that I am puffing on my e cig when I walk into buildings, I often have it hanging out of my mouth whilst I am using my hands.

I think you're telling porkies.

There are lots of different smells, from various fruity ones to vanilla, chocolate, coffee etc.

I've never encountered an e cig that smells like an actual cigarette. Even the tobacco flavours just leave a smell that's a bit scented, sometimes floral.

I think the only explanation is that age was smoking an actual cigarette op.

The vapour from an e-cig disappears very quickly as well. Wish my G.P waiting room smelled faintly of e-liquid instead of stale smoke, shit and B.O.

I would like to see banned older people who are there because they have a vomiting and diarrhoea bug and lean very closely in order the whisper this information to you.

And it is always older people before I'm accused of ageism. My parents used to go in for anything. The keep away for 48 hours idea never seemed to get through to them.

YABU.

Smoking was banned in public places because it's a massive health risk. E cigs aren't. In fact, the more people see them, the more smokers will be encouraged to try them and the more lives could be saved.

Lots of things stink out waiting rooms. Sadly none of us have the right to be protected from smells we don't like. If we did, there are a lot of other things I'd ban before ecigs

Real cigarettes are dangerous to health. It is perfectly reasonable to object to them in your vicinity.

But e-cigs are about as harmful as a cup of coffee, so if you want to start banning those, you may as well also outlaw any perfumes that might be offensive to anyone.

I personally would lobby hard to ban those grim Lynx smells, and also those sickly celebrity perfumes. They give me a headache, to the extent I have had to get off a train and wait for the next one because a carriage smelt so strongly of perfume.

I'm an ex-smoker, and I hate e-cigs because I see people smoking them and it reminds me of al the delights of real smoking

And I really don't want my dc to grow up thinking that smoking of any sort is ok.

I hate the smell of some of them, some of them remind me of those vile air freshners. But they are 100 times better than cigs, and don't make me crave a cigerette like a fag does.

Some places do ban both, Our local pub and cafe have.

I was vaping outdoors when a woman approached me and asked me loads of questions about it.
I saw her buying one the next day.

I've not touched a cigarette since I got one, I've smoked 30 a day for 29 years.

They are not harmful at all. What you see is similar to steam from a kettle. Ecigs are by far the most successful quit method, god knows I tried everything else, nothing worked. This works.

When they bring out an e-liquid which smells like this I will agree with you.

I reckon menthol bacon flavour's probably a bit antisocial.

Ledaire
I used to love that as a teen, smelled it recently and gagged.

I smoke but i dont smoke if im in a public place unless its a smoking area like outside a pub for example.I hate walking my ds past people smoking in the street too and i dont care if thats unreasonable because thats how i feel.I dont mind ecigs but I dont think its good around children because Id rather personally that my ds didnt ask what it was.Yes pot calling kettle because I smoke but ds doesnt know I do and Im not proud of it just weak