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To be fed up with people vaping!

24 replies

Clafoutie · 03/11/2023 22:27

I have almost got to the point now of preferring the smell of cigarettes to these sickly, cloying clouds from vaping. I commute by bus daily, so spend a lot of time standing around at bus stops. I feel I’m the only one not vaping, and am sick of my clothes and hair taking on the smell. Worst is getting stuck behind someone on a busy street, puffing away. I know there’s not much to be done about it, just getting it off my chest!

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Closetheblinds · 03/11/2023 23:05

The smell of vaping won’t get stuck in your clothes and hair.
Id rather the smoking of cigarettes be banned in public so that the rest of us don’t have to breathe in someone else’s lung pollution

Huwipulotu · 03/11/2023 23:11

Yanbu

so many idiots who never smoked in the first instance now vape. It’s really pathetic and the smell is disgusting.

KriceRispies · 03/11/2023 23:14

Vapes are unsafe and should just be outright banned on health grounds and on environmental grounds. Fuck knows what they actually contain and what it does to human bodies. The plastic waste is disgusting.

Banana1979 · 03/11/2023 23:15

It gets on my tits when I accidentally walk through someone’s vape cloud

Its5656 · 03/11/2023 23:16

YUNBU Its gross and the amount of people I know who vape way more than they ever smoked is insane. It can't be good for people's lungs.

FreeezePeach · 03/11/2023 23:18

You've over egged it with the 'smell on your clothes and hair' but other than that YANBU.

Do you also stink of bus? 😁

warriorofhopelessness · 03/11/2023 23:18

Closetheblinds · 03/11/2023 23:05

The smell of vaping won’t get stuck in your clothes and hair.
Id rather the smoking of cigarettes be banned in public so that the rest of us don’t have to breathe in someone else’s lung pollution

The smell of vaping very much does get stuck in your hair. My BiL vapes the most vile cloying stuff and it makes my clothes stink and it also makes me nauseous.

WhateverMate · 03/11/2023 23:19

Banana1979 · 03/11/2023 23:15

It gets on my tits when I accidentally walk through someone’s vape cloud

You should probably button your top then 😊

HappyHolidai · 03/11/2023 23:19

Totally agree: they are disgusting and should be restricted only to smokers as a stop smoking aid on prescription.

Vile things and the dangers of breathing such crap into your lungs are still unknown.

WrongSwanson · 03/11/2023 23:21

HappyHolidai · 03/11/2023 23:19

Totally agree: they are disgusting and should be restricted only to smokers as a stop smoking aid on prescription.

Vile things and the dangers of breathing such crap into your lungs are still unknown.

Agreed.

Clafoutie · 03/11/2023 23:21

FreeezePeach · 03/11/2023 23:18

You've over egged it with the 'smell on your clothes and hair' but other than that YANBU.

Do you also stink of bus? 😁

I do stink of bus, yes!

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Glitterybee · 03/11/2023 23:21

YANBU

I detest it, it is vile

MissBattleaxe · 03/11/2023 23:22

Well kind of YANBU. I do get it. I've just quit smoking via vaping but I still treat it like smoking and try and not to blow it anywhere near people. It's better than smoking but it's not as good as not vaping at all. For now I'm grateful it helped me over the cigarette hurdle but I stay out of people's way.

hellohellothere · 03/11/2023 23:23

YANBU it's smelly and disgusting. The dangers aren't known yet but surely breathing anything other than air is bad for you. Inhaling smelly hot liquid can't be good.

TomatoSandwiches · 03/11/2023 23:24

I find it really intrusive and yes it's all sickly sweet plumes of vapour.
They look daft tbh.

Clafoutie · 03/11/2023 23:29

MissBattleaxe · 03/11/2023 23:22

Well kind of YANBU. I do get it. I've just quit smoking via vaping but I still treat it like smoking and try and not to blow it anywhere near people. It's better than smoking but it's not as good as not vaping at all. For now I'm grateful it helped me over the cigarette hurdle but I stay out of people's way.

That’s fair, and I do appreciate that for ex smokers it might be helpful. But it just seems like SO many people are vaping now, and presumably a lot of them are not using it for that purpose. I just wish more vapers were a bit more considerate of non-vapers, as it sounds like you are. A bit of consideration both ways would be fairest I guess!

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NotAnotherPylon · 03/11/2023 23:34

I knew DS1 was still vaping (after the initial discovery of vaping paraphernalia) because he came home smelling of bloody strawberries or forest fruits. So I would beg to differ on the assertion that the smell doesn't get into your clothes and hair. The sooner they bring out Brussels sprouts or stinky y-fronts fragrance, the sooner the novelty will wear off and it can start being about giving up cigarettes - like it was supposed to be.

Closetheblinds · 04/11/2023 00:04

Never noticed it myself.
Id be more concerned with the visual representation of something that has been in someone else’s body and breathed out 🤢

Fieldofbrokenpromises · 04/11/2023 00:12

Do they have dogs?

Positivelypatient · 04/11/2023 04:03

My friend turned to vaping to quit smoking but they do it in the car and it leads to an oily film on the inside of the windscreen. Can't help but wonder what that's doing inside her body. Yeah maybe not as bad as smoking cigarettes but still not good. And I also do hate walking through great clouds of the stuff in the street,especially from those huge ones. I think it looks a bit silly too.

Tebheag · 04/11/2023 07:16

It is disgusting at least with smoking some people are considerate and do it away from you. Vaping people do it anywhere give it many years from now and it will be shown how bad it was for your health !.

MidnightOnceMore · 04/11/2023 07:19

I do think people vape very inconsiderately, it really does smell and taste horrible.

shockeditellyou · 04/11/2023 07:28

Oh God it stinks and I hate it. We had a lovely few years when hardly anyone smoked and no one vaped and now we might as well be back in the smoking years. The sooner they are banned the better.

D3LAN3Y · 04/11/2023 07:51

I have been vape free for about 4 weeks now and I didn't realise how much those around me vape until I stopped. Even people posing in photos (you can see a glimpse of a disposable), people driving, people queuing, walking the dog, nipping in a shop, etc. The worst thing I find is the kids in secondary school uniform, the kids on the metro or the kids in maccies not giving a fuck like its their god given right to vape. Atleast when we wanted to smoke as teens we hid it from the adults...not these lot.

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