Hacker News Reader

Comment by nnnnni | Hacker News Reader

Do they stink like regular cigarettes? The horrible stench of regular cigarettes is worse than any possible carcinogens to me, ugh!

View on HN

Not by a long shot. I've been a smoker for more than half my life, and while I still am, since I've moved to another city that frowns upon smoking in your own apartment, I've become far more cognisant of the smell - not that I was completely ignorant to it.

Nicotine vaporizers have no scent that I've ever been aware of. I've had a couple myself, and they have found quite a bit of popularity in my neighborhood very recently. You can't even tell someone is smoking one unless you see them take a puff. As far as I've been able to tell, there is no scent.

Some liquids leave a bad smell, most do not. There's about 8 of us in my office that smoke them (inside) and no one had an issue with it until recently when we got some new liquids and they DID smell. So we took them outside until we got back to our regular liquids.

I think people just need to have some common decency.

> As far as I've been able to tell, there is no scent.

You said you still smoke. Smokers have a terrible sense of smell. You would have to ask a non-smoker if the e-cigs smell.

If you wonder: They do. Not anywhere near as bad as a real cigarette, but they do smell.

Of course they smell. Nearly everything has some smell, me and you included. It's just that you happen to dislike this particular smell. I know how it is - the smell of raw meat makes me puke almost instantly. But... It's my problem, you know? I'm not going around trying to ban making meals from raw meat (really, I can smell even if the kitchen is quite far away). Disliking e-cigs smell - which one? there's tons of them... - is your problem. I think mine is more serious - think of what I feel when I have to feed my dog! - and so I don't think your moaning about is needed or even worth listening.

Nope, they don't. They don't smell like much of anything since they emit water vapor and not smoke. At the most, they might smell a little bit like the cartridge flavor (watermelon, cherry, whatever..)

I've been around people smoking them, and there is no smell, and it doesn't upset my asthma either.

I was at an event recently where a man a few feet away was smoking an e-cigarette. After a while I noticed a sickly sweet smell coming (I think) from the cigarette. I found it very unpleasant. When I got home I searched for info about the smell, but mostly what I read was that e-cigarettes produce no odor, or at most a mild sweet one. Maybe I'm more sensitive than most to the smell -- it didn't seem mild to me -- or maybe it had to do with being in a confined space. If anyone else finds the smell repellent I'd be interested to know that I'm not the only one.

No, they don't. They produce an extremely mild sweet smell. You would never notice by smell alone.

They do not smell like traditional cigarettes. The Blu eCigs I have smelled are very aromatic, almost like pipe tabacco or hookah. They smell a whole lot better than traditional cigarettes and the smell is less strong but some people still may not like it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com