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!?!

I used to smoke until I got pregnant too.

Darling - great. Would you rather it was a cigarette??

I think there has to be a modicum of sense here, I'm currently smoking and vaping (don't ask, I'm weird, hope to fully swap at some point). There are places I wouldn't vape, the same as I wouldn't smoke there; on the bus, a workplace, walking round Aldi etc. But I would vape in a pub and possibly a cafe, but probably only if other people are.

I don't feel it normalises smoking, smokers are still the lepers of society whereas vaping is gaining ground and becoming more acceptable. I don't anyone who tries vaping first would have a cigarette and think "blimey, this tastes way better" yet there are plenty who have one vape and then won't smoke because vape tastes so much better.

What i do wonder is if all these vapers, if vaping is banned, will they go back to smoking for the nicotine fix? And that would be probably the biggest backwards step.

Hotmad - I haven't read the whole thread ...

Clearly

Here's the thing, for all of you who think the vapers should be sent outside - where are they going to go? They'll end up standing with the smokers - but they don't smoke! Why, having stopped smoking, should they be sent somewhere they have to breathe second hand smoke? Not to mention the risk of relapse, being around smokers all the time.

Mine looks like a pen. I don't use it except in a situation on which I would smoke, but it doesn't bother me when and where others do it.

But e-cigs are about as harmful as a cup of coffee

We don't know that yet.

My dgm vapour cig used to smell of tobacco till I got her on menthol flavour. I'm currently on cherry menthol so tastes/smells like I'm smoking a tune!

I love my vapour cig, had it since Xmas Eve, but I wouldn't sit smoking it in the doctors.

If you can't sit for an appointment with out puffing on a ecig/fag you have isshooooos.

YABU for the title of your post alone, vaping isn't smoking. Get a life.

Darling - great. Would you rather it was a cigarette??

I'd kill for a fag

As a non smoker I think that controlling idiots should be banned in public places. Can we do that?

As a non smoker I think that controlling idiots should be banned in public places. Can we do that?

I don't class myself as a non smoker. The last cigarette I had was before Xmas. I still inhale nicotine with a pretend fag and bow out smoke albeit fake smoke. And vapour oil disappeared everybody would be back on 'real' fags b the end of the week.

Makes me piss when people claim they no longer smoke while puffing on a vapour cig ha ha

Sorry. Didn't mean to double post.

I support the idea that controlling idiots should be banned from public places.

"I bet you choose to seat yourself away from others if you can."

I lurk by the entrance wearing a scarf and waving hand gel if anyone dares to even look in my direction.

Call yourself what you like
I call myself a non smoker because I don't smoke.
I am a vaper. Ergo I vape.

Yes I think we can reasonably talk about etiquette, Dwerf, but it's a tough conversation to have when people are calling for it to be banned - doesn't make me feel very polite

Personally I avoid vaping around food in case it smells. Also if I'm somewhere very crowded. Lots of places I vape and nobody notices - 'stealth vaping' is a useful technique to learn. It's not necessary to produce Big Clouds (but it is nice ).

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

What it does do is normalise addiction. And the sweet flavouring are marked towards young people. This will never be a good a thing. E-cigs are not regulated and there is no evidence, as yet, to say they are safe.

The fact that people are walking round with them glued to their mouths like dummies suggests that they are probably more dependent on nicotine than they were before.

So no sidling up to people like me (also comprised) and spitting in their faces about having the shits? Fair play.

kate it's a tad 'emperors new clothes' if vapours disappeared off the shelves you'd be back on the B&H tomorrow , ergo your still a smoker

I am "glued" to my vape stick but that's because they are fundamentally different to cigarettes. They are smoked entirely differently.

I have saved almost £600 in five weeks and that money was essentially being burnt on the fire with my lungs and heart in it.

Yes to borcest

plenty

But they are not.
So I won't be back on the B&H.
And even if they are banned, I'll stockpile a lifetimes supply and freeze it so I can vape forever

ledare we don't know the damage were doing to our lungs yet though? In 10,20,30 years we could start seeing a lot of new lung conditions associated with vaping.

Yabu and frankly a little bit mad.