[FnG]magnolia;25842835 said:
The sense of entitlement is both hilarious and mystifying.
"NOT MY E-CIGS! I NEED THEM TO REPLACE THE OTHER ADDICTION I DEVELOPED OF MY OWN ACCORD! LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE THRIVING VAPID COMMUNITY!"
I think there's a double-discussion going on here. In the workplace, sure, your humourous outburst example is just... not going to work. You aren't entitled to anything in the workplaces. The rules are the rules. Step outside, mate.
On the other side, though, outside of the workplace there really are no reasons beyond someone saying "I don't like how it looks... damned junkies" to remove it. In which case, your comedic take/put-down is absurd. As long as nicotine remains legal, there's no justification for stopping public use.
Just wondering which angle your comment is coming from, as it appears to be a blanket statement for all walks of life.
They do have an odour and they are annoying... Take for instance a meeting room where everyone files in to listen to a presentation. It's early in the morning and everyone has a coffee but some jack *** - sorry vaper - has their e-cig and sits at the front... The vapour is now blocking my view of the slide. Okay this didn't happen in this setting, BUT I was at the cinema and this did happen.
On a side note and not sure if someone mentioned it... Do they pose a fire risk? (more so than other electronic equipment)
Vaping in the cinema is just one of the pinnacles of douchebaggery, in my opinion. Never, ever, ever. What a total plonker.
In terms of safety, they're no less safe than anything else containing a Lithium-Ion battery. Buy cheap crap from China and it might just go pop, like the various stories of iPhone beside explosions due to cheap knockoff chargers, etc.
Is there conclusive evidence published to prove that e-cigs are safe to users and those around them?
Multiple conclusive, published analyses of the effects and constituents of vapour in an enclosed space. The risk is so minimal that it's been decided not to use it in consideration for restrictions. The focus there now is on the "renormalisation of smoking behaviour" -- which is horrendously absurd in itself -- with an additional focus on "protecting the children", which we all know is the last bastion of desperate people with no solid point. Funnily enough, that's likely to get very silent too if the anti movement manage to get Pharmaceutical regulations enforced. In which case, the exact same (almost) technology and juice will be perfectly fine for mass consumption -- solely because you're buying it from them at a hiked up cost. In my mind, that says it all regarding how safe they are.
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