Survey Shows Majority OK with Vaping Nearby

Harris Interactive has published the results of a survey, which it performed for e-cigarette maker Mistic, asking how people feel about people using electronic cigarettes nearby, and the results are quite interesting.

Adults under age 35 (70 percent) were more likely than adults 65 and older (46 percent) to say they didn’t mind people using e-cigarettes near them.


Midwesterners who gave an opinion were more tolerant than people living in the West about people using an e-cigarette on an airplane.


People making $50,000-$75,000 a year were less likely to care about someone vaping than someone with a smaller salary.

The poll, which surveyed 505 men and 506 women, asked various questions related to how people felt about people using electronic cigarettes in close proximity to themselves. Perhaps the most startling of the results, given recent trends toward banning the use of electronic cigarettes in public places, is that 63% of respondents said they were OK with someone using an electronic cigarette nearby.

However, results varied when the questions became more specific. 58% of those responding, for example, said they would be fine with vaping at sporting events, but approval sunk as far as 26% when the question of vaping on an airplane was raised. Other questions involved using e-cigarettes on public transportation, which was approved of by 35% of respondents, and movie theaters, at 29%.

Men overall were much more accepting of electronic cigarettes, with 77% saying they wouldn’t mind someone vaping near them, compared to 55% of women. Notably, however, in both cases the majority of respondents were accepting of the idea of someone vaping nearby.

Annoyed when e-cigarette users ‘light up’ near you? It depends on where you are, new survey says | cleveland.com.

Survey Shows Majority OK with Vaping Nearby

Banned from Vaping at Home?

In a somewhat unusual article in DigitalTrends, Andrew Couts, a vaper, argues that refraining from vaping around others is “the right thing to do,” and explains why there’s a vaping ban in place in his house.

“Why? Because e-cigarette vapor might not be safe, [my wife] Jennifer says. Do I want to expose her and the critters to potentially dangerous vapor? Don’t I love my family?”

Couts has obviously seen the arguments of both sides, and while he admits that “not a single study on e-cigarettes has thus far shown that e-cigarettes pose a health risk to direct users or second-hand bystanders,” he defends his wife’s decision not to allow the use of electronic cigarettes in his home.

While Couts doesn’t go as far as saying that there should be laws enforcing this separation of vapers and non-vapers, he believes it’s just too early to subject loved ones to his vapor as a matter of etiquette and respect.

Is it courtesy or just unfounded paranoia? Let us know what you think.

E-Cigarettes Are Banned … In My House – And That’s The Right Thing | Digital Trends.

Banned from Vaping at Home?

NY Times on Vaping Etiquette

NY Times on Vaping Etiquette