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!?!

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Work can't see a nicotine patch. Nor smell it.

I wish they would make taking breath mints a rule for heavy coffee drinkers though. Coffee breath is rank.

[mayorquimby]

"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."

Yup. You'd have to be a fucking idiot to object to e-cigs in public places.

[ginmakesitallok]

Saying that vaping normalises smoking is like saying drinking a bottle of water normalises drinking a glass of vodka

[PlentyOfPubeGardens]

Even ASH doesn't buy that any more SirChen.

This is an interesting document produced by ASH on the very subject of this thread.

Role models:
Many public health advocates are concerned that the availability and use of NCPs that resemble cigarettes, as some NCPs do, could “re-normalise” smoking, so encouraging their use among children and acting as a gateway to smoking. Others have suggested use of NCPs does not model smoking, but the replacement of smoking, with users conspicuously avoiding the harms smoking causes. As yet, there is little evidence on either side although it seems likely that both effects will occur. The available evidence does suggest that, so far, sustained use of NCPs among children in Britain is limited to those who have already tried smoking. This will remain an important area of research.

[Innogen]

What about people who smell of BO? Ban them too OP!

[KatieScarlett2833]

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good myth
DD was a smoker, now she vapes, as do most of her ex smoking friends. I rejoice that young people find vaping a satisfying alternative.

[candycoatedwaterdrops]

My doctor's surgery stinks. A e-cig would probably enhance it.

[venusandmars]

I'm with SirChenjin they are shaped liked cigarettes, they have smoke like cigarettes, you put them in your mouth and inhale like cigarettes, and the tobacco companies are active in the industry (ever wondered why?)

Vaping is not something different. It is using a smoking device and action.

I totally get that it is really helping people to move away from smoking, but making it ok to 'vape' in places where smoking is banned is a backward step.

[KatieScarlett2833]

E cigs are shaped like cigarettes.
Vape sticks look like a pen.

[candycoatedwaterdrops]

"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."

Older people are more vulnerable to becoming very ill from D&V bugs. I'm in a high risk group (immunosuppressed) and my GP is always happy to see me if I'm very poorly with a stomach bug.

[WorraLiberty]

venus they do not have 'smoke' like cigarettes

They have vapour...hence the word vaping.

[gamerchick]

you're being ridiculous OP.. stinking the whole room out indeed

[specialsubject]

actually if someone came in reeking of perfume I would wait outside!!

it is quite a difficult choice between that and the stink of a cigarette. Stinky-stick a bit worse I suppose, perfume usually walks out with the wearer.

[Ledare]

candy, I'm sorry to hear that. I bet you choose to seat yourself away from others if you can?

[ginmakesitallok]

venus - my ecig does NOT look like a cigarette - or a pen for that matter. pic here The big tobacco companies have no connection to the companies I use to purchase my vaping supplies.

Vaping is using a nicotine delivery system - it is NOT smoking. It does not cause the harm that smoking does. It will not kill me. It will not kill you.

[KatieScarlett2833]

Sorry should have said my vape stick looks like a pen

[Ledare]

It would hardly enhance a teen's street cred, would it?

Gateway, my arse.

[caruthers]

I don't vape and it doesn't bother me if people vape around me one jot.

Whoever mentioned it up thread about this being a controlling attitude is right.

[PlentyOfPubeGardens]

Mine looks nothing like a cigarette. It looks like a black rectangular box with a little red bottle on top. It doesn't produce smoke it produces vapour. The tobacco industry owns around 2% of the market - the crap end, incidentally.

[DarlingGrace]

Im an ex smoker. I never realised how much I stunk until I got my nose back and smell other people

[Hotmad]

I haven't read the whole thread so I apologise but I wanted to add that I hate it when people do that, when they did smoke actual cigs, did they smoke in GP surgery? No. Can they not wait a short while to they get out?
I saw a man smoking one in toys r us and I just thought it was silly as he could've waited to get out!

[DarlingGrace]

Who ever was talking about teens - an e-cig is he nicotine of choice in local schools.

[ginmakesitallok]

As for the gateway argument - why on earth would somebody swap from a cheap, stink free, harmless activity to one which is expensive, stinks and will kill them??? Only a non-smoker could come up with such a stupid argument.

[monicalewinski]

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

That is all.

[Ledare]

Mine looks ridiculous, but I am over forty and give no fucks. To me it doesn't look as stupid as smoking a cigarette while hacking my lungs up.

I passed the smoking looks cool phase twenty five years ago along with the rest of the world.