Hi all,
As a non-smoker (6 months now) and a regular vapor user, I can say that that this has been the greatest thing created to keep me off of the stinky nasty things forever. I've tried patches, gum, lozenges, quitting cold turkey... nicotine is HARD to quit, so hard that it has been defined as more difficult to get off of than opiates. Now, I smell better, taste my food again, my smoker's cough has completely gone away, I don't get colds and sinus infections, and I spend a LOT less money on nicotine products. I will soon begin reducing my nicotine amount slowly to zero and eventually quit them entirely. My wife is a non-nicotine user and has a zero-milligram ecig that she uses from time to time just because the minty flavor is so nice.
Another grand benefit of vaping instead of smoking is that I no longer have to stand huddled up with a bunch of stinky people and take in not only my own smoke, but the second-hand nastiness as well... or do I?
At WDW, apparently, I do. While I have made a conscious decision to increase my healthy longevity as well as the air others breathe, I am being asked to stand amongst and inhale the very thing I'm trying to avoid.
The Ecigarette market in 2010 was roughly $416 million. Citi, according to an article from Business Insider, has projected the market will pass $3 billion by 2015.
What I'm getting at, and this is just all my own opinion, is that a) anyone who requires vapers to stand in the smoking section is causing further harm to folks who do not want to be in the second hand smoke; b) the market is growing by leaps and bounds, more and more people are using them successfully and putting tobacco products away for good (three new vapor stores have opened in my small town of 10k people in the last few months); and therefore c) if a majority of people in WDW parks and resorts find vaping offensive (and no one I've been around does), then those of us who have taken the leap to put away the harming effects of tar and carcinogens and second-hand smoke should be allowed to have designated vaping areas.
I'll be discreet and inconspicuous in the meantime, I promise.
As an aside, I worked in a very tightly controlled area of a military base. You have to walk 200 yards to get to a smoking area. You have to dispose of your ashes and remains properly or get written up (vaping produces zero waste or trash immediately btw). But in my office, around 20 other co-workers, bosses, and expensive equipment, they allow it, praise it, applaud those who have made the switch, and completely encourage it.
Thanks for listening to/reading my $0.02 (which I can afford easier now).
