e-cigarette Blows Up in Man's Face

[ShivaFan]

Some consider nicotine food, so I put this in the Food and Bev section.

It also makes a great insecticide.

There are now multiple cases of this happening. I recalled hearing of this a couple of years ago (indeed here is the link: Electric Cigarette Explodes in Fla. Man's Face - ABC News) and then there was another story I heard of late last year before Christmas, and then I turn on the AM radio in my car to listen to Rush during the commute, and the top of the news reports it today, another case in San Diego:

E-cigarette explodes in man’s face | FOX5 San Diego – San Diego news, weather, traffic, sports from KSWB

Then I hear it happened in the U.K. last year:

This might be a battery-powered issue. With the Apple Watch, there was buzz of an e-cigarette that is also a watch with reloadable nico-tubes and a wireless connection to SMS messaging. But that may not fly. These e cigs are mini bombs. Don't be surprised they are put to use by Islamic terrorists supercharged and left laying on a bar table at a saloon. Or they can just walk into a superstore that also sells e cigs and then detonate the entire shelf with a remote iginition system controlled by an Obama phone. Seriously, you want to put one of these things in your mouth?

 

[Revoltingest]

Some consider nicotine food, so I put this in the Food and Bev section.

It also makes a great insecticide.

There are now multiple cases of this happening. I recalled hearing of this a couple of years ago (indeed here is the link: Electric Cigarette Explodes in Fla. Man's Face - ABC News) and then there was another story I heard of late last year before Christmas, and then I turn on the AM radio in my car to listen to Rush during the commute, and the top of the news reports it today, another case in San Diego:

E-cigarette explodes in man’s face | FOX5 San Diego – San Diego news, weather, traffic, sports from KSWB

Then I hear it happened in the U.K. last year:

This might be a battery-powered issue. With the Apple Watch, there was buzz of an e-cigarette that is also a watch with reloadable nico-tubes and a wireless connection to SMS messaging. But that may not fly. These e cigs are mini bombs. Don't be surprised they are put to use by Islamic terrorists supercharged and left laying on a bar table at a saloon. Or they can just walk into a superstore that also sells e cigs and then detonate the entire shelf with a remote iginition system controlled by an Obama phone. Seriously, you want to put one of these things in your mouth?

They still look less dangerous than the old fashioned tobacco fueled pimp sticks.

 

[Iti oj]

They still look less dangerous than the old fashioned tobacco fueled pimp sticks.

how its litterlay impossible to make that claim, since they haven't been around long enough to know the true dangers of them.

 

[Revoltingest]

how its litterlay impossible to make that claim, since they haven't been around long enough to know the true dangers of them.

Ciggies have known dangers, & everyone I know who smoked has suffered the adverse effects.
E-cigs have few instances of blowing up.

 

[Iti oj]

Ciggies have known dangers, & everyone I know who smoked has suffered the adverse effects.
E-cigs have few instances of blowing up.

You ignored my post. We have no idea of the dangerous of ecigs. There are not long term studies to show they are safe or even safer. The claim that they are is unsubstantiated and lacking any data to back it up. We will see in 15-50 years if they are or are not safer.

 

[Revoltingest]

You ignored my post.

I did?

We have no idea of the dangerous of ecigs. There are not long term studies to show they are safe or even safer. The claim that they are is unsubstantiated and lacking any data to back it up. We will see in 15-50 years if they are or are not safer.

It's just my opinion based upon the fact that one doesn't inhale combustion products.
E-Cigarettes: Health and Safety Issues

 

[McBell]

how its litterlay impossible to make that claim, since they haven't been around long enough to know the true dangers of them.

Huh?
Unless you are blind, all one has to do is look at them to determine if they LOOK less dangerous....

 

[Iti oj]

I did?

It's just my opinion based upon the fact that one doesn't inhale combustion products.
E-Cigarettes: Health and Safety Issues

your link agrees with me
"Are they safer than tobacco? Or are they a high-tech way to hook a new generation on a bad nicotine habit?

Nobody knows yet."

Any the belief that inhale combustiosn products are worse the inhaling chemical vapors being safer is erroneous until we evidence one way or the other.

 

[Iti oj]

Huh?
Unless you are blind, all one has to do is look at them to determine if they LOOK less dangerous....

That doesn't even make sense.

 

[McBell]

They still look less dangerous than the old fashioned tobacco fueled pimp sticks.

how its litterlay impossible to make that claim, since they haven't been around long enough to know the true dangers of them.

Huh?
Unless you are blind, all one has to do is look at them to determine if they LOOK less dangerous....

That doesn't even make sense.

My nine year old gets it....

No idea how to dumb it down further....

 

[Revoltingest]

your link agrees with me
"Are they safer than tobacco? Or are they a high-tech way to hook a new generation on a bad nicotine habit?

Nobody knows yet."

Any the belief that inhale combustiosn products are worse the inhaling chemical vapors being safer is erroneous until we evidence one way or the other.

All things are "chemical", so that criticism has no bearing.
But the components in e-cig vapor are more controllable than in burning tobacco.
Given a choice between the 2....I'd pick vaping over smoking.
(Of course, I partake of neither.)

 

[SkylarHunter]

Quit smoking, end of problem (and more money left)

 

[Iti oj]

Quit smoking, end of problem (and more money left)

Im at circa 3 weeks cold turkey

 

[Revoltingest]

Im at circa 3 weeks cold turkey

I know a guy who has successfully quit smoking dozens of times.
May you fare better than he.

 

[Sees]

I trust organic tobacco cigs over e-cigs personally

Wouldn't put it past companies to throw the same junk most dangerous in old school light'em up cigs in those e-things.

 

[Iti oj]

I know a guy who has successfully quit smoking dozens of times.
May you fare better than he.

only dozens? I gotta be on my 100th. I appreciate your support.

 

[Poisonshady313]

I wouldn't recommend the inhalation of vaporized nicotine as a viable smoking cessation method. However, for those who are committed to the perpetual consumption of nicotine, e-cigs are safer.

As for e-cigs exploding... I believe more people will die this year in a vending machine related incident than from exploding ecigs.

 

[Smart_Guy]

They should note that on the e-cigarette box; "e-cigarettes might explode on your face".

Dude, just stop smoking!

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I have an e-cig. I never use it, though. I prefer the real thing.

 

[ShivaFan]

I get up this morning, turn on AM radio to get the news, and the first thing I hear is another incident of an exploding e-cigarette in Santa Ana. So I check the internet news, and sure enough:

E-cigarette lodges into ceiling after exploding in Santa Ana man's hands | abc7.com

A Santa Ana man was smoking an e-cigarette in his bedroom, when the device exploded in his hands and lodged in the ceiling. His shirts and bed caught on fire.