E-Cigarette is the wrong word?

Do you think E-Cigarette just gives people the wrong impression to vaping? Technically, cigarettes has thousands of harmful chemicals. The only thing cigarettes and vaping have in common is nicotine. I just learned that we should never use the term e-cigarettes. Any opinion on this?

 

Possibly, although though it is an electronic device that is used for nicotine consumption so not wildly inaccurate. People may think it is just as harmful as a cigarette though, which we all know is incorrect. I always used to think 'vaping' was exclusively a term for non-nicotine containing vaporisers.

 

Yep, it's technically incorrect. I agree to some extent. Can we invent a new word?

 

E-cigarette is still widely used by retailers here in the U.S.; however, I have also seen the term "personal vaporizer" used. To me, I don't really care what term is used, as long as it is one that is widely recognized. The more people that learn about e-cigs, (personal vaporizers, or whatever you want to call them) the less taboo the subject will be.

 

I do think it leaves the majority of people with the wrong idea. They should have thought of this when they launched it but they can still change it's name. If they had called it a e-vape it might not have had this negative impact on people.

 

I think that vape or vaporizer are the best words to describe what's being used. I am not a fan of the word e-cigarette because it is nothing like a cigarette. The only similarity is that you're inhaling. Everything about using a vape is different. I feel like when you use the term "e-cigarette," it makes the idea of using them much worse. Many people believe that vapes are the same as cigarettes and are just as harmful. I think a lot of this comes from the way we refer to the device.

 

When people talk about e-cigarettes, I normally just think about the little ones that actually look like cigarettes. Ha. Either way, it doesn't really bother me at all what they are called.

 

I agree, I think it's misleading because it compares the traditional e-cigarette, like the Mark Ten and the Vuse, which are created by tobacco companies to continue to put money in their pockets. Vaping is a different classification in my eyes. I've tried the e-cigs and had no luck, as they would die, the replacements were inconvenient to get and I just decided to smoke regular cigarettes. Now that I have an actual vaporizer, it has been much easier to kick the cigs completely. Down to 1 a day from 10-12, so that's a victory either way!

 

Yes correct e-cigarettes is a very inaccurate moniker for sure.
Sometimes things get started and they just stick no matter how wrong they technically are.
It only helps to keep up the myth that many have that vaping is the exact same as smoking cigs, which we all know here is wrong!

I prefer "vape" personally.

 

I prefer vape also because it just makes more sense that way. Calling it an e-cig is not really accurate given that I don't really mess with much nicotine at all anymore and have no addiction to it anymore. The e-cig thing kind of implies this false reality where it represents something that it isn't at its core

 

Well e-cigarettes are quite dangerous I think, I mean I have heard a lot of news about it exploding and burning people. Of course it can happen with vapers too, but I think that e-cigarettes has so much worse place in the media and in people's head too.

 

Hmmm... Electronic cigarettes... The term does connote that it is a cigarette in electronic form. Maybe the term vape should really be used more rather than electronic cigarette. On the other hand, electronic cigarette does connote that it can deliver nicotine electronically instead of a smoke. But I think vape is also appropriate for that since the nicotine delivered is via vapour.

When we use the term electronic cigarette, chances are, people are taken aback. They think it's just the same as smoking cigarettes when in reality, it isn't. I think more information about vapes should be passed out just so people don't have the wrong idea about it.

 

I think its fine what ever you call it, it is in essence a electric cigarette, a device made to help you quit smoking and step down your need for nicotine. If your not doing that and plan to stop using it at some point them it is just that. Vaping has been used for other stuff as well so either term can look bad to others. I am trying to cut down and quit someday.

 

The term was adopted before all this new legislation was being considered. It seems pretty obvious that companies have a vested interest to replace "ecig" with "vape" but that is a very hard thing to do once the public has adopted a certain term for a new product.

 

It was a marketing strategy they used when they first got onto the market. They had to get smokers interested so they had to call it a e-cigarette. I think enough time has passed that they should change it's name.

 

I don't think it gives people the wrong impression. It really is just an electronic cigarette, since it gives out nicotine.

 

Interesting, but I do not think that the word "cigarette" is being misused here, as it implies the gesture of inhaling a form of nicotine, and after getting out of your mouth vapors or smoke, which both can manifest as a dense fog.

I'm thinking that you just want people to make the difference once and for all between these two habits, but trust me, there isn't that much of a difference, they're both addictions, and even if one might be better than the other and safer, it's still an addiction and brings out the worst in people.

 

The word "E-cigarette" helped them to get in the industry by associating with cigarettes, but now that they have a fair share of the market it would be smart to disassociate themselves with the word so as to curve the public opinion towards a more accurate representation of their product (e-cigs).

 

I agree as well, though it was required for initial marketing, now it's just led to bad reputation among people.

 

It was just a marketing word to attract smokers to switch to vaping. Unfortunately, the word cigarette is a negative word with all the anti-smoking campaigns. Many of us already call it vaping, so that is the best word for it.