Ok, so I can tell that you are one of those guys that watches tv and all of a sudden your an expert. I bet you watched all the CSI's and then tell people how crime scenes are investigated.
Secondly we aren't talking about a puff we are talking about fucking clouds. I can sit in my car with my windows up and take a few pulls off of my subtank and then open the doors. It looks like I am fucking baking in my car. If you actually read my previous posts you will notice that I said that it isn't about your fucking perception its about the cops. Your perception doesn't matter and if it did nobody would be given a ticket or go to jail. A cop can pull you over because they think you are smoking pot based on the plume not "puff" coming from your vehicle. After that when they walk up to your vehicle and see your tank, they may very well think it is drug paraphernalia. Guess what if at that moment that is what they think it is, there is your probable cause. It doesn't matter what you think. If an officer can articulate his/her actions in a report and it is reasonable than they can do said actions. And yes you can search a vehicle based on view, its called the plain view doctrine. And just so I make sure I am super clear here, going from reasonable suspicion to probable cause is a two way street. It can go back and forth based on new information/facts that the officer perceives while conducting the detention.
I feel like I need to hold your hand right now.
Don't touch my hand. If you feel you need to hold something, my cock is right here.
I've been practicing the "keep my fucking mouth shut and never consent" for a few years now. Despite some cops requesting backup when I get pulled over because they "think you have something to hide" when I politely tell them I don't answer questions, I have never had my vehicle searched or my juice tested. The reason I have never had my vehicle searched despite 3-4 cruisers lined up behind me is because they don't have fucking probable cause. They don't smell weed. They don't smell booze. Dogs don't alert on my vehicle. And, I don't fucking say anything so they can't use that either.
And your "cops perception" theory is bullshit too. In
Illinois v. Gates, the Court favored a flexible approach, viewing probable cause as a "practical, non-technical" standard that calls upon the "factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men act". It is no more reasonable nor prudent to assume the liquid in a tank is an illegal substance as it is reasonable or prudent to assume the leaves in a cigarette are an illegal substance. You need more. Smell, a person that presents as stoned(red eyed, etc.), bad driving, hiding the tank or something that's been said.
For the plain view doctrine to apply for discoveries the incriminating character of the object must be “immediately apparent.” A vapor device is not immediately apparent to contain an illegal substance. There
still must be probable cause to believe that it does contain an illegal substance. A puff of vapor or even a fucking cloud of vapor is not probable cause. That's what a vapor device fucking does. You still need reason to believe it contains something other than nicotine and flavor. In other words Officer Barbrady, with the millions of people legally using vapor devices in the US, what makes you think this one was being used illegally?
So, while a puff of smoke or even a cloud may be a reasonable suspicion to pull me over, it's not fucking probable cause for a search or seizure. The 20 questions game(where are you going, etc) is specifically meant to illicit probable cause. This true no matter what you was pulled over for.
People that believe your line of bullshit get searched and overly harassed because they were misinformed by people like you. LE thrives off of an ignorant public that don't know their rights. I can see why you would push this false narrative. Police need the general public to remain ignorant and give up their rights of their own accord so that they will do as the OP did and consent. Your rhetoric is nothing more than an attempt to convince people that they may as well consent as your view is that anything can be considered probable cause which is just plain ridiculous. In your world, any vaper using anything but a closed system cigalike(vuse) can be searched without consent. As freemind said, BULLSHIT.
Personally, the first thing I do is turn on my cell camera and record the stop. Police, even those that self proclaim a deep belief in the christian god, often dismiss the 9th commandment.