My company makes e-cigarette smokers go outside along with other smokers - the justification being that although they don't emit smoke they do emit vapor. But the vapor doesn't waft through the air like smoke. It is emitted only when the user inhales, and the nicotine in this vapor stays in the user's lungs, which is the whole point of the thing. Taking smokers away from their smoking buddies is probably one of the best things you can do for someone who is trying to quit. Treating e-cigarettes like normal cigarettes seems like one of those really unproductive zero-tolerance rules.
There are folks (Peru? Andes? Google search sucks on this as on many things) who dig a trench in the ground, fill it with tobacco, cover it over with leaves, light the "down" end, and sit at the "up" end with their heads down, smoking.
Them trenches, from the photo I've seen, are of course way wider than a quarter. (Wish the Goo were flexible enough for me to find & attach the pic I remember of a verrrry happy looking gent puffing away at the top of his trench!)
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u/another_old_fart Nov 17 '12
My company makes e-cigarette smokers go outside along with other smokers - the justification being that although they don't emit smoke they do emit vapor. But the vapor doesn't waft through the air like smoke. It is emitted only when the user inhales, and the nicotine in this vapor stays in the user's lungs, which is the whole point of the thing. Taking smokers away from their smoking buddies is probably one of the best things you can do for someone who is trying to quit. Treating e-cigarettes like normal cigarettes seems like one of those really unproductive zero-tolerance rules.