I don’t smoke, but I used to. I have been ‘clean’ for 20 years. I don’t mind smokers. They stink sometimes, and in a car, on a rainy day, the smoke can be a bit overwhelming, but normally, I’m cool with them…no smoking in my house, naturally, since I have a kid, but before I had a kid, I let folks smoke in my house no prob.
All of that said, I know that many don’t like smoke and I don’t blame them.
But why do some folks hate electronic cigarettes?? I really want to know. A few guys at my job were told that they had to stop smoking them because there had been complaints. I sat right next to one of them and smelled nothing.
Now, I read the U.S. is seeking to ban themon airplanes. The article doesn’t really make me understand why? Anyone have a problem with these things?
I think it is the Christian based ethic that if tobacco is bad, something that gives you the same pleasure with none of the bad stuff must be bad because it feels good.
“The principal liquid ingredient (in e-cigarettes) is propylene glycol,
which is widely used as a moistening food additive and an aid to
vaporization. However, some research, conducted on non-asthmatic
people, has shown that exposure to propylene glycol mist from
artificial smoke generators may cause acute ocular and upper airway
irritation, and in a few cases people reacted with cough and slight
airway obstruction. See G Wieslander, D Norb[auml]ck, and T Lindgren, Experimental exposure to propylene glycol mist in aviation emergency training: Acute ocular and respiratory effects,'' Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2001; 58:649-655. Further, in a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, E-Cigarette or Drug-Delivery
Device? Regulating Novel Nicotine Products,‘’ it was noted that the
safety of inhaling propylene glycol has not been studied in humans.
365;3: 193-95.”
On an airplane, my guess is that it’s just easier to ban anything that looks like it’s giving off smoke so that the flight crew doesn’t have to check whether what you’ve got is an e-cig, a real cig or some nefarious thing that’s about to explode. It would theoretically be possible to use an e-cig in the lavatory, as there really is no smell or residue, but that would be illegal and I would never in a million years suggest that anyone do so.
Ok, I can buy this explanation. Still not a good reason to ban the things, but I get it. I still don’t understand why the guys here at work can’t have theirs, though.
They are as obnoxious as hell. I don’t care how safe somebody claims them do be, I don’t like being around them.
I appreciate when someone is trying to quit, but there are too many people out there who’ve been using them for over a year. That’s not quitting, that’s embracing your addiction. So my former patience with the users is gone.
Does anyone know it there is a chemical reaction when it vaporizes? That’s how one distills stuff. It would be interesting to exhale into a mass spectrometer.
I was on a plane once, where the older lady next to me got out her perfume* and spritzed herself. Twice over the course of the two hour flight. And it’s not like she didn’t already smell of it from the start.
If they’re going to ban e-cigarettes, they should ban applying perfume as well.
It wasn’t perfume where you put a drop or two on with a finger, but some kind of perfume water or something. It probably has some other name than perfume, but I’m not up on these things.
I was seated near a woman who topped this - applying nailpolish remover. It takes a special type of moron to subject fellow passengers to acetone fumes in an enclosed space.
