Timeline for Is it Bad Form to use an Ecigarette or Vaporizor in the office?
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| Jul 6, 2015 at 12:47 | comment | added | Oscar Bravo | @corsiKa Well done for coming out with the old they'll be banning music next line! It's years since I heard that... The tobacco industry has blind-sided us by inventing e-cigs; that are not covered by tobacco-burning legislation and no we have to go through the whole proving-they're-dangerous routine again before we can have them banned. Since they disperse a carcinogenic neurotoxin into the atmosphere, I'd venture that they are a little more than annoying. | |
| Apr 10, 2015 at 22:07 | comment | added | Andy | @RualStorge as someone that is never around anyone that smokes or vaps, when I did end up being around someone that vaped it was still quite irritating to my sinuses. Where I live only 15% of the state population smokes, so even encountering randomly in the downtown are is rare. | |
| Apr 10, 2015 at 14:14 | comment | added | Eric J Fisher | @corsiKa in my case we've had two smokers and an ecig user on our dev team. Honestly I see smoking as a truly annoying thing in a direct manner. When you smoke you stink, your cloths and teeth get stained, etc it's just all unpleasant. Vaping annoyance wise is in par with someone talking on their cellphone. It's just disruptive and annoying. That said it's the unspoken rule if you're going to talk on your phone you step out of the room to a stairwell, outside, break room, or similar. That said I'm not saying they need to walk all the way to a smoking area, just take it away from the desks. | |
| Apr 10, 2015 at 12:01 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 9, 2015 at 21:36 | comment | added | Andy | @corsiKa there are still health risks with ecigs too, nicotine does raise blood pressure even if its not clear if its short or long term. Vaping should follow the same protocols are cigarettes. | |
| May 25, 2014 at 12:16 | comment | added | Basic | @JoeStrazzere As you said in your answer, it's a matter of context. It may also be a cultural thing. Without meaning to be offensive, I've noticed Americans tend to be more puritanical about these things. Of course, that's anecdotal and I don't know if that's a result of the litigation culture or something else entirely. It may also be the size of the office, with only ~15 of us in each room, it's easier to reach consensus and we're all pretty relaxed about a lot of things (eg nobody clock watches as long as your work gets done). Of course, that balances with occasional late nights/weekends | |
| May 25, 2014 at 0:28 | comment | added | Basic | Two of the devs in our office just quit and went to vaping. They puff away at their desks, in meetings, etc and nobody cares in the slightest. Personally, I'm far more bothered by a colleague with bad breath... | |
| May 24, 2014 at 16:57 | comment | added | corsiKa | @RualStorge The same could be said for hundreds of things coworkers can do to annoy you. Checking phones during meetings, tapping pens/feet/hands, loud music, eating loudly, odorous foods, plenty of things that are both legal and 'allowed'. The main concern over smoking inside is health reasons. As far as I'm aware, those heath reasons are mitigated by ecigs, which brings them out of the "take it outside" category and into the "annoying but let's find a way to work it out" category. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 18:40 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2014 at 17:54 | comment | added | Eric J Fisher | While ecigs are way better to put up with then someone actually smoking indoors (illegal in many work places these days) ecigs aren't completely free of things that annoy your co workers. I've found most "odorless" ecigs are hardly odorless. The thing that personally annoyed me was people puffing away at their ecigs in the middle of meetings and such. Simply put, if you want to smoke (vape) take it outside. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 17:41 | vote | accept | QuestionMarcs | ||
| May 23, 2014 at 17:37 | comment | added | QuestionMarcs | As far as I know, the local laws aren't in place yet because ecigs are still relatively new. (Their industry is gaining momentum here in the us, I think it's a billion dollar industry as of 2012, or something like that.) I agree with your analysis of what is and is not bad form. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 17:30 | history | answered | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |