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In reply to the discussion: Do smoking bans apply to e-cigarettes? [View all]pnwmom
(108,955 posts)backing up your claims.
What e-cigarette manufacturer are YOU working for?
When I was younger and there were no smoking bans anywhere, I had to work 8 hours a day in a small room with 12 desks, and 8 of those at the desks were chain smokers. The windows were non-openable. The non-smokers weren't supposed to be bothered because "cigarette smoke isn't an allergen, it's an irritant." Well, that irritant developed into asthma for me, and then into pneumonia.
Restaurants and airplanes were full of clouds of smoke, too -- and anyone who worked in those places was also exposed to constant second hand smoke.
So I'll always be grateful to the people at the anti-smoking orgs who fought so hard over the years to get our indoor air clean, and I'm glad they're doing what they can to make sure they stay that way.
And I'm glad if smokers can get their nicotine fix in a safer way, or better yet, get off the stuff altogether. But don't expect people like me to believe that these devices don't pollute the air -- not without the research that these manufacturers are refusing to provide. Anyone who's read about the history of tobacco knows that cigarettes were once marketed as a health product. And then menthol was supposed to be an added benefit. And people believed it .. .