Do people still see it as something new?

I think that it's possibly due to the recent huge rise in visibility of them along with the influx of new and awesome devices and parts being created that have turned it into a hobby for more and more people.

 

They are definitely not new, but they've been surging in popularity recently. It may be a new concept for a lot of people, and thus they may also think that e-vapes are a new product. They've been around but haven't been accepted as easily till now.

 

I actually wasn't aware until very recently that they were quite so old. I think they've come into public view a lot more recently, as people have said, with a huge surge in the range of devices and flavours, as well as a huge push in advertising. I do know a lot of people who wouldn't smoke, but would use e-cigs. It's a lot easier to get into these days.

 

I think that the fact that they are not mainstream makes that most people are not familiar with them, even though they have been around for a while. I think the tendency is that more and more people vape, so less and less people will consider vaping something "new", it's just a matter of time.

 

In my area these are pretty new and odd. The first vaping store has opened like two years ago, but I see more and more people switching to vaping now which is nice.

 

A few people may be familiar with ecigs, but governments are betting on most people not being familiar with them. That is why we're seeing efforts to make ecigs as evil as regular cigarettes.

Governments are in a big hurry to make ecigs undesirable, before most people are exposed to them.

 

I don't know why governments do that, is it the tobacco lobby working at it's best? I would expect that taxing on e-cigs would make them equally desirable for governments.

 

The reason why electronic cigarettes seem like a new invention, is because of all the brands, flavors and, designs. Many years ago long before I was born, cigarette companies created ads that stated how cool smoking cigarettes was. That age old concept has never change. The principal of business is to create something people want to buy. When the law was passed that people cannot smoke in public areas, smokers were very upset. So companies took an old idea and just dressed it up to look like the new best thing.

 

Yes, people still see e-cigs as something new, because e-cigs are just arriving in some areas. Also a lot of people don't care to listen about what they because they hear "electronic cigarette" when really e-cigs (besides in the occasional shape/color) are in no way like cigarettes.

 

Yeah, I was just creating a thread on this topic, where a company announces it like a "new way of smoking", so it's still very new and it's still beginning in some countries, but I think it will be a big success.

 

This has been touched on a bit, but I think people do still consider them new because they've gone through many different stages. First off, they all look so different that it's hard to point at a single object and say, "that's what electronic cigarettes are". They just have so many shapes and sizes and types that it's complicated.

Also, their purpose is shifting radically. They started as a means to quit smoking traditional cigarettes (which they still are), but I find to a much larger extent now they're now becoming a thing for hobbyists in the same way that pipe smoking has been considered in the past. Only now modders can create new devices and their own e-juice flavors leading to more room for variety and innovation.

 

In my country we don't see many vapers, so people still strange when they see someone "smoking" in a closed place, like a restaurant or a university, so yeah, it's new in that way.

 

Maybe it's just your impression because I think that people are fond of e-cigs by now and don't really consider them as something new.

 

Possibly it depends on the area or even on the country. In big cities most likely there is more vaping because it's where technology gets first, while in rural areas it's not so common.

 

Well of course any technology is going to be less familiar to those in rural areas. In general though I think people are beginning to understand what E-cigs are regardless of whether or not they've ever seen one in person. They're all over television now too.