"vaping"

[Galen Buttitta]

E-cigarette user here, can confirm this is the term of choice.

> On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:55, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> Right, and I recall from an earlier article that aficionados (including my son at times) are known as "vapers", which has a 2010 entry in urbandic.  Not to be confused with "viper" (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You%27re_a_Viper; I have a great version on vinyl by Martin, Bogan & Armstrong), of which it sounds like an ablaut variant.  It all depends on what you're smoking, or not quite smoking.
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> LH
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>> On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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>> According to the crowd in this room, it is the word for using an
>> e-cigarette.
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/nyregion/vapors-and-emotions-rise-at-hearing-on-e-cigarettes.html
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>> DanG
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