Depending on where you hail from and where you call home in the world, there’ll be specific laws in place when it comes to vaping and driving. In a good deal of cases, of course, you simply won’t be allowed to do both activities simultaneously, whether you like it or not. After all, drawing on your e-cig or mod while actually driving – rather than when you’re merely sitting in a vehicle not going anywhere – probably isn’t the wisest thing anyway, as it may serve as a distraction to following everything that’s happening on the road around you.
All the same, here follow some sensible general pointers to bear in mind when it comes to vaping and driving – they’ll keep you safe, you and your vehicle clean and (hopefully) you popular…
Do crack open a window or two
Opening a window – or more – is simply the least you can do should you want to vape in a vehicle; fundamentally, out of courtesy. If you’re travelling with more than one person, it could well be they’re not vapers and (even if they are) they likely wouldn’t want to breathe in all the vapour you generate; irrespective of the fact it’s not going to harm them, of course. The other reason for releasing vapour from the vehicle is more prosaic; should you not do so, there’s a real danger the vapour may leave some film or kind of coating on the window’s surface, especially if the vape juice you’re using comprises a high vegetable glycerin content. If you do regularly vape in your vehicle, you might want, now and then, to give the window’s insides a quick wash with water and vinegar to remove any detritus-film.
Don’t keep your vaping kit in your vehicle
The temptation of leaving bits of your vaping kit in your car, van or truck between use may well be strong – especially if, say, you’re in transit for much of the day and constantly in and out of the vehicle. And, after all, it’s not going to do any harm to merely do that, for convenience’s sake, is it? Well, possibly; the trouble is if you’re not in your vehicle all the time, you’re not aware of what the environment in there’s like and what effect that might have on individual bits of vaping apparatus.
For instance, e-juices don’t get on well with very cold temperatures in winter (which the interior of a car can definitely experience when nobody’s there); cold can thicken the liquid to such an extent it may harm an e-cig/ mod’s wicking or even cause a tank to leak. Conversely, very hot weather is no friend to e-cig paraphernalia either; high temperatures may destroy an e-cig’s battery and make other e-cig parts warp or melt. You’ve been warned!
Don’t litter – in any circumstances
Nobody looks kindly on a litter critter; least of all one who’s a vaper! Let’s face it, in this early era of vaping’s story, the activity and everything associated is still seen as controversial by society at large, like it or not, so vaping really does need all the friends it can get. And one of the best ways to ensure non-vapers look unfavourably on the vaping community is for them to experience e-cig users dropping bits of their vaping equipment – used e-liquid bottles, old coils, used batteries or even useless, cheap e-cig devices – out of their vehicles before they drive off somewhere or, worse, even while they’re driving.
Irrespective of whether you’re a vaper or not, there’s no reason to litter the road or pavement from a car window and not take your rubbish home with you – but there’s all the more reason not to do it if you’re a vaper!
