Here we go...

[Ardo]

I didn't know where else to post this. But hopefully it's okay to post it here.

We are developing a place for vaping community where we want to get vendors and vapers together to find out which establishments allow indoor vaping and which places don’t, educating and raising awareness along the way. By doing that vaping community will create ground for simpler regulation and fight e-cig bans.

How it works is this:

• Vendors do giveaways. In return they will ask you to find out which local places allow indoor vaping and which places don’t, bringing attention on the issue that your local government may equalize vaping with smoking and take away your freedom to vape. (Vendors educate their customers and work together with the community)
• When you ask your local establishment owners about their policy on vaping you get to defend vaping and educate establishment owners about the benefits.
• Right now, we are collecting vaping stories together in one place. If there’s a threat to ban e-cigs in your area, we will create a Call To Action and have prefilled emails with your story ready for you to send to your local government office.
• Doing that we get to show that there are real people with real stories supporting vaping in thousands and tens of thousands and prove that vaping community can regulate the world around them without excessive regulation by authorities.

Here's an animation we made to explain this a little:



We are not quite ready yet and right now we are collecting together your vaping stories.
So, sign up and SHARE YOUR STORY. We are talking to vendors in the next couple of weeks and I will keep you posted once we are ready to launch the whole thing.

www.vapeout.com

Cheers, guys
Ardo

 

[puya]

Hey, congratulations for your initiative. Hope you will collect vaping stories and involve the vendors.

 

[Uma]

Bookmarking!!

 

[Ardo]

I understand that it might be difficult to grasp at first what we are doing. Perhaps this helps:

Russ who runs Click/Bang show had RunnerX from Tacoma, Washington on the show. This guy ran New York marathon vaping the entire time. He also runs a vape shop in Tacoma. He said that his idea wasn't just making a business, where customers come in, leave their money, get their stuff and get out. But instead he wanted to make a place to hang out, create community around it and discuss stuff that’s important to vaping world. He said that it’s going to take grassroots movement to get the kind of legislation we need and we need to come together and act united.

Now, this is one shop in one community, separated from more than 4500 vendors across the country and they have very little understanding of what’s happening elsewhere. Make no mistake about it - what happens in other communities, cities, couties, states, affects what’s going to happen in yours.

This is where social media gives us tools to change all that. What VapeOut does, is adding social media to what vaping communities across country are doing already. But now we are having united vaping communities instead of separated communities. Being united gives people like you and me power that we don't have individually.

The first thing that we can do with this power is to find out, which establishment owners allow indoor vaping and which places don't. This way we can say "Hey, we got this one covered. Hands off, please!!"

A little more time and effort and we’ll be there to show you how all that comes together. In the mean time, get yourself ready and sign up. Share your story, because this is the key element that you can do to affect legislation. It's going to be hard to rationalize bans when hundreds and thousands of vapers are proving the benefits of vaping and proving that vaping community can regulate itself.

Cheers