Vaping in your own car against the law??

Please tell me this is some kind of joke. Evidently this article came out a month ago but this is the first I've heard of it.

http://associatedmediacoverage.com/11-states-ban-electronic-cigarettes-in-vehicles/

I live in South Carolina (not affected) but both Georgia and North Carolina are on the list.

Interesting catch. Need to verify. @5150sick , any ideas?

"According to a U.S Department of Transportation representative, the participating states will receive additional federally-funded incentives throughout 2017 for their participation and implementation of the ordinance"

Very clearly this is a public safety issue - being charged to, and paid for by, of course, the public...

ok, never mind. Evidently it's a hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/11-states-ban-ecigs-in-cars/

Sorry 'bout that.

Glad it's a false alarm, but I wouldn't comply if it was real. I'd rather take my chances holding a mod than drop a lit cigarette in my lap.

Love the REO when I'm driving

Got me there for a minute. If that were true I'd go back to smoking, make sure I'm broke so the state would have to pay my medical bills. Live a long time and become a burden on the health care system. On top of it I'd buy bootleg cigarettes LMAO. That'll fix em right ?

Mannn, I was about to get "heated". If i went across the border to Carrollton, Ga for a doctors visit I would be vaping it up.. daring to get pulled over.

Very relieved it was a hoax...

Well they could just flat kiss my ass; I'll still be vaping in our truck.

Georgia is extremely vape-friendly.

Andria

LOL hoax or not get used to do gooder over reach.

It's a hoax for now. For now. Seriously I won't use my tfv8 or vcmt while driving. Visibility can become a serious issue really quick if I forget to crack a window. Won't take long for some nanny type to figure that one out.

I have heard that there are some states that you can be cited for smoking coffin nails with kids in your car. Which of you do that, you deserve to be pimp slapped anyway...

I smoked with my son in the car, because me driving without a cigarette was a far worse hazard than ANYTHING that ever came off the end of a cigarette.

Andria

I did as well.
I tell myself that since I had the windows either all open or at least cracked in colder weather that it was ok.
However after I quit smoking I'm not certain I feel the same.
On the positive side, they ALL survived and grew up to be bigger pains in the butt.
haha

AndriaD said:

I smoked with my son in the car, because me driving without a cigarette was a far worse hazard than ANYTHING that ever came off the end of a cigarette.

Andria

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I started a little fire in mine accidentally of course. I had to haul hay in my little hatchback for my horse. Well, it was hard to get it all out and one day I threw the cig out the window and it flew back in!!!! Set that hay a blaze. Driving on I-10 west in San Antonio trying to find a place to pull off and douse it. Man...

I can't say that I have been a saint, and I hope that I didn't offend anyone. Times were Different in the past. When I started smoking cigs, we all new they were bad but not necessarily HOW bad. I remember when I was a kid, it was ok for parents to smoke in Chuck E Cheese's. It was ok to smoke in the airport and the malls till 1998. Hell when my daughter was born, I hid in the bathroom at the hospital and puffed away. I lit up once with my baby girl in the car, took one drag, then a feeling of guilt came over me that I have never forgotten. I had remembered how my parents cig smoke had burned in my eyes and nose and didn't want to expose my kid to it. It was a choice that I was making, that at the time my child could not. So I then decided that if I couldn't hold off for 30, 45, 60 minutes or however long the trip was, I had a problem. Just sharing personal thoughts, I hope that I didn't stir the kettle too much.

Paratech said:

I did as well.
I tell myself that since I had the windows either all open or at least cracked in colder weather that it was ok.
However after I quit smoking I'm not certain I feel the same.
On the positive side, they ALL survived and grew up to be bigger pains in the butt.
haha

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I always kept my window open at least a little, and did everything possible to get as much of the smoke out that opening as I could -- but if it really bothered him enough to make a fuss about it, I threw it out -- not happily, but that was my kid, so I did. Most of the time he understood that me without a cigarette was not a very safe driver, and didn't make a big deal about it. But he did sometimes suffer bronchitis, so sometimes I had to endure without my cigarette -- the bronchitis was why I took the smoking outdoors when he was 9, I never smoked in the house after that, but driving was a whole nuther can of worms.

When I told him on the phone in 2014 that I had quit thx to e-cigs, he said "WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY MOTHER???"

Andria

Catalyst said:

I can't say that I have been a saint, and I hope that I didn't offend anyone. Times were Different in the past. When I started smoking cigs, we all new they were bad but not necessarily HOW bad. I remember when I was a kid, it was ok for parents to smoke in Chuck E Cheese's. It was ok to smoke in the airport and the malls till 1998. Hell when my daughter was born, I hid in the bathroom at the hospital and puffed away. I lit up once with my baby girl in the car, took one drag, then a feeling of guilt came over me that I have never forgotten. I had remembered how my parents cig smoke had burned in my eyes and nose and didn't want to expose my kid to it. It was a choice that I was making, that at the time my child could not. So I then decided that if I couldn't hold off for 30, 45, 60 minutes or however long the trip was, I had a problem. Just sharing personal thoughts, I hope that I didn't stir the kettle too much.

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Hellfire, I spent a good portion of labor in the smoking lounge! Every lap around the halls, I'd stop and have a smoke! And after he was born, when it was time to feed him, the nurses knew where to find me -- the smoking lounge!

The smoke nazis weren't yet on the warpath in 1988.

Andria

I think vaping is far healthier, doesn't make it completely healthy. Then again I'm not a born again non smoker out to condemn every smoker either. To each their own, I don't like people judging/controlling me so I don't look to do it to others. Many of us had parents who smoked with us in the car, rode bikes without helmets etc. Thank god because we were obviously close to the extinction of the human race. Oh wait, we're all still here.

People all up in arms, don't know which pee pee they belong with, getting their kids sexual reassignment surgery and shit and people are going to worry about smoking/vaping around kids? Yea, that's the danger.

As far as vaping being illegal in vehicles I wouldn't put bets against it not happening in the u.s. I believe there are issues with it in the uk though I don't live there so just going from what info I've bumped into. I'm waiting for the gestapo to pull a shock and awe on my bathroom door so they can monitor my reading material while vooping ffs. Because you know, a neighbor has a kid at home somewhere in the next county. As the powers that be drive all the way across town spewing crap from their car's exhaust because as we all know the real threat to our health and the ozone depletion is cow farts.

It's no wonder so many of those type people support the nanny state, without it I think they'd forget to inhale and exhale. Don't subject your kids to anything other than purified air because it's dangerous for the little angels. Don't smoke around them, don't smoke near school property. Why? Because second hand smoke of course. What else is just as toxic? Burning diesel fuel. What do the school buses run on? Diesel. Ah yes, the cheesewagon, the vehicle parents all over this country religiously shove their children on every morning m-f as it pulls up and idles at the curb adjoining the school property. Don't smoke (or vape), the government doesn't like competition when it comes to poisoning your children.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-diesel-exhaust-causes-cancer-same-magnitude-as-second-hand-smoke/

All these do gooder asshats running around preaching to everyone about how their habits are killing off our citizens, how many of those douchebags are riding an emission free bicycle? Idiots. Makes about as much sense as a pyromaniac bitching at you for not having enough pot holders because they might burn themselves.

In Ontario, its illegal to smoke with children in the car. I would imagine theyre moving to adding vaping to that (if not already).

In the mid/late 70's I was one of many kids who would travel solo to visit grandparents for a summer break etc.. and I remember airplane and greyhound bus rides with smoke filling the air. On the planes, I would turn the "fresh air" spigot things on the ceiling towards me on full blast, otherwise the smoke just added to my motion sickness feelings. Good times.. lol.

Early/mid 80's and I remember smoking (as in.. my own) in stores and malls, banks etc.. Odd to think that now.

AndriaD said:

Hellfire, I spent a good portion of labor in the smoking lounge! Every lap around the halls, I'd stop and have a smoke! And after he was born, when it was time to feed him, the nurses knew where to find me -- the smoking lounge!

The smoke nazis weren't yet on the warpath in 1988.

Andria

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Lol, 1988 is when I started. I was 11. I have also heard stories from my elders about how in the 50s, 60s, and 70s that if you had a guest in YOUR house, that it was considered rude for YOU to not offer THEM an ashtray. Wow how times have changed. I could be walking down the street with my vape, (or cig 3 years ago), and people point and stare like I am some kind of leper.

indoor bans (for cigs, not vape), I get it. But I feel that anywhere outside is fair game. Including inside my car, which is my personal property wherever it happens to be.

Catalyst said:

Lol, 1988 is when I started. I was 11. I have also heard stories from my elders about how in the 50s, 60s, and 70s that if you had a guest in YOUR house, that it was considered rude for YOU to not offer THEM an ashtray. Wow how times have changed. I could be walking down the street with my vape, (or cig 3 years ago), and people point and stare like I am some kind of leper.

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Yeah... I had my tonsils out in 1978, when I was 17; I smoked right in my hospital room -- the trays that would roll under the bed had an ashtray built right in.

Andria

Your showing yur age again Andria

Whiskey said:

Your showing yur age again Andria

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I know. I remember my mom smoking while she did her grocery shopping. Or while standing in line at the bank!

Andria