Running but also smoking. #LiveYourBestLife
Allison is named semi-randomly. Not sure yet how much story content she'll be involved in but figured I'd at least name her so I have options later.
Running but also smoking. #LiveYourBestLife
Running and vamping seems both unwise and like it wouldn’t work well…
When I was a kid, I met an old man who would smoke stogies while on long runs. When I asked him why, he told me it keeps him focused so his mind doesn’t wander. I didn’t get it until I learned he was a Jew from Poland back in the late 1930s, early 40s who survived the Nazi camps and still had nightmares on occasion.
I don’t know if Allison has a similar problem, but to each their own.
I’ve seen a man smoking while riding a bicycle. Multitasking skills!
A vaping jogger is an oxymoron: Anyone who does it is short on the oxygen and too much of a moron.
Give me a break, they were outside, huffing vape? My ass.
Why would it matter that they were outside? If you can smell it (and you certainly can if you’re that close), you’re inhaling it. It supposedly doesn’t linger as long as standard cigarette smoke, but it doesn’t immediately dissapate, no matter where you are.
You must be hanging around different vap-ers than I do. It pretty much DOES dissipate immediately. I even had someone exhale straight into my face as a test and smelled absolutely nothing.
Cigarettes are a completely different animal. You burn a solid, you get solid particles in the smoke, some of which tend to stick where they land (including the inside of your lungs). You evaporate a liquid, on the other hand, it’s gone as quick as steam, or the breath you can see when you exhale on a cold day.
Of course, huge lobbying organizations that raked in an insane amount of money demonizing smoking for decades are very quick to jump on the new vaping horse in hopes of beating the new cash-cow to death (if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphors). They’ve had a sweet gig and they’re eager to prove to us we still “need” them, and that they still need our money. >_> Truth never held them back from seeking a profit before, why would it now?
Wait, you are trying to attack the anti-smoking organizations for “raking in money” because they went after the poor defenseless cigarette companies? The ones who:
A) New how dangerous smoking was long before the general public did
B) Intentionally made their products more addictive
C) Intentionally marketed their increasingly addictive products to children
D) Did so while raking in billions in profits each year?
That is the argument you want to make? Are you sure about that???
It is weird how vaping is getting more hate than smoking.
I think both suck and should be under similiar restrictions in terms of where you can do it.
Can I write one about governments gleefully jumping on the anti-smoking bandwagon, jacking taxes on cigarettes to the point they were making $13 of profit for every $1 the cigarette manufacturers got to keep… except that they had to do absolutely nothing to earn any of it? Just sit back and let obscene amounts of money fly into their accounts, while the general public actually applauded them for it?
I have no idea how fast vape smoke appears to dissipate, but I can tell when someone has been vaping in the drive-thru I work at, because it *always* gives me an asthma attack, even if I don’t smell anything.
Doesn’t dissipate immediately at all.
Might be you’re simply not as sensitive, but as you can see from comments, yours is not a universally shared experience at all.
Out in the open or not, just as easy to get an oh so refreshing breeze of vape as it is to walk past lingering smoke… and neither, for me, prove pleasant in the slightest ):
Plus who knows Wilco-Tango-Foxtrot is in those vape cartridges? People are hacking them, putting their own stuff in them. Number one cause of bladder cancer is not smoking. No! Number one cause is “Second-Hand” smoke. Don’t ask me how I KNOW from Experience, … I Learned this, TWICE.
I don’t hang around vapers, or any kind of smokers – at least while they’re partaking. I have awful lungs, allergies, and I don’t need that.
Something that I’ve noticed is people who DO tend to be around smoke/vape/pot don’t always notice when things smell like smoke/vape/pot, though. One puff is hardly a scientific test, either.
I’m perfectly fine with people doing whatever they want to themselves, but I’ve got a real problem with them insisting whatever it is they’re doing is 100% safe and should be allowed everywhere. No.
It took DECADES to get legit, honest research about cigarettes. I honestly don’t understand how people could think it’s ok to do that shit around others.
I’m just really tired of seeing this shit on the internet. I don’t like Andy anyways so it’s easy to just disregard whatever she has to say.
Unless they are blowing vapor directly in your face, you aren’t “huffing” it and Andy is a ass for implying so.
If Andy is gonna whine then she should go find another job, not talk trash about a employer but use them because you are such a failure as an adult you can’t provide a home for your daughter you ditched and lied about.
Woooow
May I suggest taking a breath, calming down, realize this is a comic, and at least stop calling her Andy. It’s Andi. Like seriously, this isn’t something to swear over and say they’re a “failure as an adult” for stuff they haven’t done.
Lovers ‘gonna love,
Vapers ‘gonna vape,
Don’t be a vaper.
No, Andi is just a way to spell Andy to feel special.
It’s the feminine form of the name, since she’s Andrea not Andrew.
Andi is right.
In your own home do whatever but in public spaces where other people have to put up with it f off with vapes.
16-year-old parents? She was doing the responsible thing when she gave the kid away to a financially stable family, a happy home until the mother died.
Wait, what? I don’t recall any deaths in Amanda’s adoptive family — she was abused by her brothers and then effectively returned as “defective” by her parents!
Look Vape is 100 times better then classic smoking but its not flawless. I can smell the vanilla malt stuff from down the street. There are a lot of additives and all different kinds of dispensers that produce a slightly different result its not a perfectly clean process by any stretch. I’ll take a puff of vape to the face over smoke every single time, absolutely. But when my neighbor is smoking that cookie dough off there balcony I smell it, it leaves a mark it has an effect. I just wish every smoker would switch to vape because vape doesn’t trigger my friends asthma but they do affect my grate grandmothers lung issues, but its still less then a smokers. Sensitivity is a thing.
The world is full of smells we may or may not like. Vape smoke isn’t a special, magical exception. And they are running and yes, outside. Andi shouldn’t even be in contact with the smoke.
It’s clear from context Andi means ‘put up with her crap’.
Andi didn’t actually say she had been huffing vape during their run; she said she *would be* if she ends up sharing an office or other workspace with Allison. Which is a fair assumption if Allison is so addicted she vapes even while running. (btw – I also fall into the “it’s still an issue when you’re outdoors” group. I frequently attend outdoor events where audiences are seated en mass, and other peoples’ vape is often a problem for me. Not as likely to have lasting effects as cigar or cigarette smoke, but definitely unpleasant. Kinda like hanging around a teen who still uses a half-bottle of cologne is unpleasant.)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who figured this out…
Running while vaping seems psychotic to me.
Much better to be a Lunter.
International Lunting Society
https://www.lunting.org/
Well, at least it’s just vape, and not tobacco smoke… yeugh.
Personally, I’m always pleasantly surprised when I’m waiting somewhere and a cloud comes from some person beside me, and it smells like vanilla instead of pure nasty.