How Should We Deal With This New Menace?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18734753

[ummmm]

Why is it a new menace?

Surely it's better than smoking?

[ToraToraTora]

just as bad, stinks to high heaven and makes smokers think smoking is allowed.

[baza]

So what is the menace, I roll my own fags and was standing in a shop rolling one, the assistant said "you can't smoke that in here". I pointed out that it was not lit. She was not amused when I said that on the side of a bus I had seen an advert that 1 in 10 teenagers had an STD which is why I never travel on a bus.
Electronic fags are a good idea imo.

[ummmm]

They are odourless. I don't know what you've been smelling.

[Mamyalynne]

I was not aware they stank to high heaven, rather the opposite in fact - have you some evidence TTT?

[ToraToraTora]

They are far from odourless, last time I smelt one in a pub it smelt like socks that had been on for a fortnight. Some have some sort of fruity/herbal smell that sometimes isn't too bad.

[dave50]

Just let people smoke if they want to for goodness sake! ( I am a non smoker)

[anotheoldgit]

ToraToraTora

/// just as bad, stinks to high heaven ///

Apparently not.

*** Although it contains nicotine, there is no burning and only odourless steam is produced. ***

[ummmm]

Mamy, they don't, he must be mistaken.

The reason they can be used in public is because they are odourless and smokeless.

[ummmm]

Tora - the person must have smelt. Not the ecig.

[Mamyalynne]

They had old socks on then.

[ToraToraTora]

They are not odourless. I can smell them, some guy I know in a club I go has given ip smoking and puff on these more or less constantly and he uses various capsules that produce a cloud that is far from odourless.

[Baldric]

If they really are odourless/smokeless I would have no objection,
unless of course it encouraged someone to light-up a real one.

[ummmm]

If they had a odour they wouldn't be allowed in public places...simple.

[ToraToraTora]

So my nose isn't working then! I can tell blindfold is someone is puffing one of these. They may claim they are odourless they are not.

[Mamyalynne]

Maybe we have to consider their are some types that you can add essences to, have just read on a forum of Vanilla and Mint , though why the guy in the Pub chose socks is a mystery.

[Mamyalynne]

Maybe a veto on aftershave and perfume may follow.

[Sqad]

mamy

\\\\ though why the guy in the Pub chose socks is a mystery. \\\

LOL

[Mamyalynne]

I believe some have a fetish of sorts , read it in Readers Digest I think.

[ummmm]

Okay...the normal ones are odourless. I've never smelt the fruity ones.

Like Mamy says, shall we ban aftershave and perfume?