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The smell from vaping is not comparable and it goes away quick, at least if you are not using some fancy liquid. Even if it doesn't, it's no worse than the smell of kebab which people are allowed to eat indoors.


Vaping indoors for any length of time leaves a sticky residue over everything - perhaps either nicotine or propylene glycol residue. Even ignoring the air quality issues for people who didn't sign up for it, it's not completely impact free.

Maybe kebab also creates poor air quality and sticky residues, but in my experience people don't tend to eat kebabs continuously every 5 minutes through the day.

I'm all for e-cigarettes as an almost-certainly-better alternative to real cigarettes (banning vaping but not smoking is ludicrous to me) - but allowing using them indoors does have a real impact on everyone else. Perhaps some are discreet, but the cloud chasing guys ruin it.


I believe residue is just from big cloud VG. I certainly don't see any around my flat, if there's any it must be slower to build up than dust.

If the impact is big enough sure, but it makes little sense to me to treat them harsher than anything else.


But if my colleague was sat at his desk eating a kebab for 8 hours a day, I'd find it problematic.

Not everyone is as able to ignore sounds and smells as you might be.

In particular the sound of someone vaping over a headset/phone makes me shiver.


So vaper says, non-vaper should not be annoyed by what they is doing?

"Even if it doesn't, it's no worse than the smell of kebab which people are allowed to eat indoors."

Shouldn't it be me to decide instead of you?




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