USA VAPING
MAGAZINE MOCKS
PEOPLE TRYING TO
QUIT CIGARETTES
by Stephen Tarpey
We've seen one of our competitors trying to deride
our magazine on social media recently.
Posting a picture taken in November
where one of our staff (not the staff
member pictured), who still smoked had
a packet of cigarettes on the desk during
the production of the magazine. Normally
we don't respond to petty comments
or rumblings from our competitors, we
normally let our magazine speak for
itself.
For some reason this felt different, like
they were saying that our magazine
was less fit to represent this industry
because we have an employee (who
worked with us before the magazine
started) who smokes. It actually made
me angry, the thought that someone
would think that a designer with many
years experience, shouldn't be part of
our organisation anymore just because
she hadn't managed to quit one of the
most ad dictive chemicals.
This got me thinking, because as
the owners of Vapouround Magazine
both Paul and myself who are exsmokers,now vapers, wanted to
start the magazine to support the
industry. The thing is we don't just own
Vapouround magazine, this is a part of
a bigger organisation where we have
approximately 40 staff, as we grow
we always employ new staff and we
don't discriminate because people are
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smokers, why? Because surely these are
the people who need our help the most!
When we started the magazine, we
made a decision, we wouldn't punish
people because they smoked, instead
we wanted to support, so anyone who
expresses an interest in wanting to quit
Smoking at our businesses is provided
with a free mod and tank, we also set
them up with their first liquids and ensure
they get guidance and support about
using the devices correctly, correct
nicotine strength etc. We have even
given devices to family members of our
employees, so it really annoyed me that
someone would try and bad mouth us,
without even knowing what a difference
we make. To me this is the height of
ignorance, in this industry we shouldn't
be looking to ridicule smokers, most of
us were one once, in fact we should
be thinking of them as future vapers. It
annoys me that people get snobbish and
turn there noses up at smokers, rather
than thinking what they can do to help.
The moment we forget this industry
exists to help people get off cigarettes
is the moment we've lost our way, so
it's time the people doing this changed
their state of mind. If all you care about
is reaching experienced vapers and
mocking smokers, you need an attitude
adjustment. This industry is about getting
to people wanting to quit smoking just as
much as it is for experienced vapers.
Another thing is, the persons whose
cigarettes were in the picture is now off
the cigarettes and is Vaping, we're so
proud of this person, and your shoddy
attempt to embarrass our organisation
actually highlights the reason why we
know we're making a difference.