Electronic Cigarettes at Resorts

[maryj11]

I know they are not FDA approved. Who knows why they are not since they have been around since 2004. Could it be because they have checked them out and just keep saying they are not FDA approved because they know they are safer than real cigarettes and will lose tax money from people buying the regular cigarettes ?

 

[koleta@mickey]

I have been off real cigs for three yrs now and only use my e cig. It looks nothing like a cigarette and does not light up at the tip. I use it all the time at Disney.....and not one person has ever even asked me about it. I use it in bars and restaurants also at Disney. The key is to hold in the vapor for a few seconds and then nothing at all comes out...that is how I do it inside at Disney. It has no smell so no one knows...not even the bartender at the bar.

 

[LazyDaisy]

My husband smokes them and they bug me... At least when he was smoking "real" cigarettes he would go to a designated area on our porch and be done with it. This was supposed to get him to quit, but I was against it from the start, and my fears have come true - he carries it around with him and smokes all freaking day, wherever he is. He smokes all freaking day with it and spends more than he did on cigarettes - and that's the biggest reason he was trying to quit in the first place!! Grrrr. It's ridiculous.

Also... he says I'm insane, but I can smell it. It smells absolutely disgusting to me. He says it's just water vapor, but it smells like dry ice to me, which I also find disgusting. He swears dry ice doesn't even have a smell... so he says I'm saying it stinks just to nag him. Nope. I can tell he's smoking even if I don't see him do it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who can smell it, although supposedly it's rare. I just get worried that if he went to the designated area then he would crave "real" cigarettes - which are unhealthier. This might be just as expensive and totally annoying, but it IS healthier than real cigs. I think he'll just be smoking on the balcony and stuff (assuming we have one) or discreetly while walking around outdoors. I realllly hope he doesn't get "caught" by a CM or something. And I hope kids don't see him do it. It bothers me what sort of example he's setting for kids - ours, other kids', etc.

 

[mommadjones]

My husband used one while quitting on our Sept 09 trip. He always used the designated areas at the resort and the parks.
He did officially quite at the end of that same month

 

[gwynne]

My husband used one while quitting on our Sept 09 trip. He always used the designated areas at the resort and the parks.
He did officially quite at the end of that same month

Good for your DH for quitting. I agree that "e" cig or "regular" cig should both be at the designated smoking areas.

 

[reiella]

I know they are not FDA approved. Who knows why they are not since they have been around since 2004. Could it be because they have checked them out and just keep saying they are not FDA approved because they know they are safer than real cigarettes and will lose tax money from people buying the regular cigarettes ?

FDA approval is a very interesting process that is actually mostly handled by the company producing the therapy.

I imagine most of it being the companies producing it don't want to be saddled with the various requirements for an FDA study. There may also be marketing concern with it coming out that it's not that effective of a therapy.

 

[surfcruiser]

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).

 

[annaaidan99]

I second surfcruiser. Switching was best thing I've done. Now I can't stand the smell of smoke. I will never smoke a cigarette again...but I do enjoy the vapor. I don't generally pull it out it public, but when I have it's been well received. I've loved being able to use in hotels. I say if its done inconspicuously it should not be a problem.

 

[jaykorf001]

Thanks, not a smoker, but curious

I've seen one of these once or twice and wondered what it was.

Is it against the rules for my husband to smoke a cigar on our balcony at AK?

 

[dansdad]

Is it against the rules for my husband to smoke a cigar on our balcony at AK?

Yup.

 

[jaykorf001]

Yup.

Oh boy will I be in trouble when he finds this out. I wish he'd quit those things. You think having a spouse that smokes cigarettes hits the budget you should see his monthly cigar tally.

 

[Lynne M]

Cigarette and cigar smoking is prohibited in guest rooms, guest room balconies, and public areas of the resort. Fines are assessed per occurrence, I think it's something like $250 each time.

This thread is closed; please continue any discussion on smoking at resorts on the Smoking & DSAs at Resorts thread at the top of this board.