So the consensus seems to be that e-cigarettes are less harmful than regular ones, but I’m on the fence about my wife vaping in our house. I have never been a smoker and there has never been a question about not smoking in the house. Now that she has made the switch (which overall I am happy about, btw), she will use it in the house maybe three times a day. My gut says the second hand vapor less harmful than cigarettes, but not harmless.
What is your opinion, and/or what do you practice in your own homes?
We do have two children living in the house as well, if that effects anyone’s opinion.
I never smoked, but both my parents did. The two ladies that clean our house both vape but I’ve never smelled anything. I don’t track how often they do it, but I do know they do it some.
Im not saying that lack of smell means there’s nothing in the air, just that I don’t sense anything. And I can detect cigarette smoke very well having lived with it for 20 years.
As this is an IMHO question, IMHO answers will follow the bias of the answerer. As someone who does not do this but knows people who do, it is probably better than actual smoking for health reasons, and almost 100% certainly better for not stinking up the house. The research is still being done on “second hand vape” but it is likely many orders more healthy than actual smoke. I would guess that your wife is not going to blow it in the kids’ faces, nor create non-health problems with vapor (rust? Never noticed any smell), thus the most likely explanation is that there is minimal risk in any direction.
Well, not always. My bias is against e-cigs, and I favor laws treating them the same as ordinary cigarettes. But my recommendation to Dinna Fash is: go ahead and try it for a couple months, and see. Find out for yourself if gunk builds up on windows, or if smells permeate curtains and carpets.
Make a deal with your wife: if the windows get smeary and the upholstery starts to stink, then she’ll take it out to the back porch. If not…she can vape away and I hope she enjoys it.
I know someone whose spouse thinks she should not vape in the house, and she does it anyway, and he doesn’t know the difference. He can’t tell if she does it in a room he’s not in. He can’t tell if she does it in bed if he’s asleep. No residue, no smell.
They have no children.
He smokes one cigar a week, when he visits his parents. Uh, outside. As far as I know his sense of smell is normal.
I sure can’t tell, when I walk into her house, that she does anything involving nicotine in there. The house smells kind of old and fusty, but it’s an old house and it always smelled that way.