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!?!

[BackOnlyBriefly]

If more people start campaigning for e-cigs to be banned that will confirm what I already suspected. That for a lot of people it wasn't so much about the dangers as the opportunity to be controlling.

[Ledare]

Katie, so did I

Pubes, you're the one with the dried fish flavour, yes?

[KatieScarlett2833]

If it winds you up so much, try researching vaping. You'll soon find something else to be concerned about.

[WorraLiberty]

There's not an e-cig in the world that smells like a real cigarette

OP you've just being picky and a bit judgy

Would you have started this thread if it had been her perfume you could smell?

[Ledare]

It's quite encouraging really. Vaping must be a "thing" now that threads on AIBU have been started

[PlentyOfPubeGardens]

Haha not really Ledaire

, I think the OP might NBU if it was crab flavour.

[lilola]

An e cig that smells like a real cig?! utter bollocks

[ShitOnAStick]

Well I don't really like seeing people smoking (e cig or normal) but an ecig isn't actually doing any harm to others is it?
I think in a doctors waiting room I'd have no problem with this, it can be bloody stressful waiting if you've got symptoms you're worried about. Doctors surgeries are quite anxiety provoking for some people so I think YABU. Some people smoke more when stressed.

[Ledare]

Crab?

[magimedi]

I've been vaping for 18 months & use 'tobacco' flavour liquid. It smells nothing whatsoever like cigarettes of any description.

YABU

[SirChenjin]

Yep, they should be banned in public. e-cigs normalise smoking, something we've fought for bloody years to stop in preventative services and they aren't odourless. Definitely a backwards step.

[Ledare]

Mind you, no worse than someone who has eaten scampi and lemon crisp things or even worse, the rank aroma of those microwave Chinese cardboard meals.

[PlentyOfPubeGardens]

BackOnlyBriefly - Yes! I find people's reactions to vaping really interesting. I've come to the conclusion that some people are just really pissed off that we're enjoying it!

This made me laugh.

[Ledare]

"Non-smoker Tom Logan said: “My neighbour has a much better job than me and a far more attractive girlfriend, but as he’s a smoker I could always take comfort in the thought of him dying an agonising death"

[PlentyOfPubeGardens]

They normalise vaping not smoking.

[SirChenjin]

No, they normalise smoking.

[Ledare]

“I just hope there isn’t some dangerous side-effect that the manufacturers have kept secret. But I’m sure people who sell nicotine products would never do that.”

Quite.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

I thought the same rules did apply.

Work would throw a fit if I merrily puffed away on a e-cig at my desk!

[Ledare]

But not if you imbibed caffeine or used a nicotine patch?

[LaurieFairyCake]

I think we've become so anti smoking that some people think it's ok to dislike someone who used to sm

[SirChenjin]

My work would too. I work in the NHS. Go figure.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

I've noticed lots of very young teenagers using e-cigs.

The fact they come in flavours seems to be encouraging young people to erm...become addicted to nicotine.

They're a good enough idea but I imagine there will the rules placed on them fairly shortly. A bit of regulation of that market probably wouldn't go amiss either.

[ginmakesitallok]

People do realise that there is no general right to not be offended? As said above smoking indoors was banned because of public health concerns, because of the danger of second hand smoke. There is no danger with second hand vaping.

They don't normalise smoking - they normalise vaping!!

[LaurieFairyCake]

Smoke.

Basically they see it as a character flaw. And like to be judgemental.

I've seen the same thing in comedy - that weight watchers sketch where the leader loathes fat people? Marjory something?

"There's no cure for being a cunt" - half man Lannister