Reply #44: You're absolutely right about the sense of smell

[Mariana]

being sharp enough to detect relatively minute amounts of smoke. That makes it even less understandable that some people fly into a rage when someone is using an e-cig near them. Hello, if there's NO SMOKE, then NO ONE IS SMOKING, even if it looks like they are. I watched an outraged loon give a woman hell for "smoking" in a lobby and when she told him what she was doing he only got MORE pissed off.

To be fair, I personally haven't gotten grief using an e-cig in public, although I've never used it openly on an airplane (I've used it in the lavatory, though, more than once on long flights) or in a crowded restaurant - I don't want to get into situation where I'm facing some furious irrational nutcase in a confined space. I have used it in airports, waiting to board the flights. I got a few glances, but no one seemed to be bothered - I suspect they didn't even know what I was doing, probably because my e-cig doesn't really resemble a cigarette. The vapor dissipates almost instantly and of course, there is NO SMOKE to smell.