Vaping. Take it outside.

It is simple. Take it outside. The insidious rise of 'vaping' as the acceptable face of smoking is astounding. It should be a regulated stepping stone that helps addicts to give up smoking, not a new industry that creeps its way in to society, becoming seen as 'normal' or 'cutting edge', designed to snare a new, younger market for profit. Insidious. In the UK, vaping should be subject to the same advertising rules as smoking, the same taxation measures and pushed to the same outside areas as smoking.

Instead, we are served loads of  'sexy' adverts on TV, the portrayal of this habitual need to draw noxious chemicals in to your lungs as 'cool' and 'modern'. These 'lifestyle' ads should be banned.
A general move to allowing addicts to blow their unregulated, second-hand, vapourised chemicals in other people's faces in enclosed areas. It is becoming acceptable in restaurants, offices, trains, buses and pubs. A backwards step for society at large, those that don't smoke and those trying to become ex-addicts. Take it outside.

It is amazing how quickly these aids to people trying to quit have become a new and valuable, growing market. Who knows what is in these products? New brands are popping up everywhere. The tobacco companies are pumping money in to e-cig development and lobbying left, right and centre to raise the profile of 'vapers' to create new markets from which to make billions. The products are at eye level in supermarkets, corner shops, petrol stations, pharmacists - not by accident, placed there on purpose to gain maximum exposure. The word 'Vape' has even become the '2014 Word of the Year' according to @OxfordDictionaries after soaring usage of the word on social media. Driven by whom?

Like smoking, nobody will get rid of it totally as it raises far too much money from taxes for the government to squander. Therefore, #Vaping has it's place and that place is outside with the other addicts/smokers. Discuss, discussed, disgust.