Is Vaping Safer Than Smoking?

And another related question, are those who use E-Cigarettes smokers anyway?

Your thoughts members?

You mean the smell that came from his smoking tobacco James or was it his insides? lol

If so I agree and maybe those who smoke don't realise what a stench it does actually give off. It gets in your clothes, even if you are only in it for about ten minutes.

That's where the E-cigarette wins for me, no stench!

My hubby has never smoked and never allowed it in our house either...which makes us very unpopular with those that puff like locamotives and wonder why they got an case of cancer. The Native American ritual of smoke is done wrong these days also...firstly they took "herbal" tobacco without the formaldyide filters that is what they use on frogs to dissect them in Biology Class....and they lit the pipe...not an ciggarette...in the bowl they put natural grown tobbacco...they said their prayers to be in "communion with God" by way of the" spirit" of the smoke...they inhaled...blew the smoke up in the air and welcomed "creator" into their sweat lodges...for purification....and visionary guidance. There are very  few of these old "Shaman" Native Americans that remember the ritual as it was originally....and people liketo pay them off with "smokes" as they call it these days.  I learned this through my cultureal classes on the Native Americans and reading their old time ways of "prayer". Through the Seneca Tribe you can buy true tobbaco cigarettes without filters...but they are costly. I've bought the E-Ciggarettes before for my kids...which is "water vapor" with flavoring in it...but they are super costly....they work continually to stop smoking. Best thing to do is never start it and then there's not problem....but  they worked ny dad over until they got him stopped...between hypnotic suggesstion and daily visiting him and getting rid of his anxiety...he stopped and never went back...now he started in the depression days of starvation....and he quit when he was in his 60's. Several of his brothers have died of cancer. Different kinds also. As kids they were sent off to the CCCamps...in order to have something to eat daily....when they got out of there they went into WWII...and kept right on smoking. For the most part they were 3 pak a day smokers. My mother and dad use to fight over this constantly.She was the first one to suggest he go outside to smoke....but she was not beyond opening the doors and windows in mid-winter to air things out rather he liked it or not. You could not have meant to totally different people at times. Dad was more "Shaman" type then what she was, but we use to swear she had eyes in the back of her head also.  You couldn't lie to her...she always seemed to know things. Even dad for all his smoking wasn't as bad as was Sue Perry's adopted(aunt) mother...Iona you could barely see in her livingroom when she got to smoking. What killed her though was an surgerical procedure that went bad and cost her life eventually...and her leg. 

Interesting post again Shirley, thank you!

Hi to all POEsters, hope all are well?

Apparently Wales is considering making it illegal to 'smoke' using e-cigarettes in public places, such as Pubs and Restaurants etc

Is this the way forward, do you think members?

Personally, I think some of the e-cigarettes are laughable. I mean c'mon guys n gals, have you seen how big they are? It really makes you look stupid dragging on a lump of metal half as big as your hand.

They resemble American Indian Peace Pipes in my view, but 21st Century style! So, so out of place (my opinion don't forget) but that said if it stops them smoking stinking tobacco then carry on, lovely things! lol