Vapers a persecuted minority?

[The Cromwell]

I ONLY started wearing caps to keep my mostly bald head from roasting in the sun.
Or if it was raining.

Kinda half baked anyway...

 

[Ryedan]

I try not to prosethylize but sometimes its hard not to

I do consider it my duty to vape in front of or with smokers as often as possible

Kudos Lucy ... I do the same and when someone who might be inclined to switch gets the hint, it's pretty good

 

[bobnat]

My grandfather fought in Europe, from France to Czechoslovakia. I'm pretty sure he thought the kids in 60's were just a bunch of pansies who didn't know shit from shinola.

 

[AndriaD]

I ONLY started wearing caps to keep my mostly bald head from roasting in the sun.
Or if it was raining.

Kinda half baked anyway...

That's why my son wears a baseball cap all the time; his hair is receding and thinning and he's very fair skinned, and doesn't want a sunburned head or sunburned ears!

I don't really know wnat "vape culture" is. I vape; my son vapes; his friends with whom he attends college vape; he's 29, but they're all early-20s. He sometimes goes to vape shops with them, but I haven't entered a vape shop in probably over a year... Hmm, no, I took him to the one I always preferred, when he was tasting new ejuices last summer. Vape culture???? WTF does that even mean???

Last week, we attended an awards ceremony in which our son was awarded something, for his outstanding performance in his first semester (4.0 GPA!), and also the Skills USA team of which he's a member (it's like the Academic Decathlon stuff he did in high school) received a gold medal at their recent outing, and are going to the nationals in Louisville this summer, and he got an award for that too. At the end, I beat the crowd outside so I could vape, and of the several hundred who walked out past me on the steps just outside the theater, I got one penetrating stare, which I couldn't determine the nature of -- interest, or hostility, I really couldn't say. Nobody else even seemed to really notice the vaping at all. It's become so ever-present down here, so many smokers switching to vaping, that nobody gets very excited about it anymore. I expect it's a very different situation in places where the smoke nazis are the HMFICs and most everyone quit smoking a while back rather than face the ire of those HMFICs.

I quit worrying about what other people think of me around the time I entered my 20s, I think, if not even younger.

Andria

 

[Carambrda]