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hammychang · 07-10-2008, 06:15 AM

So i got my NJoy last month and I tried it out at the office the next day. While no one noticed an odor, and the vapor was fairly unnoticeable, my co-workers around me started getting sick. I'm assuming I wasn't inhaling the full nicotine content in each puff, and I was spreading the excess nicotine around the air.

You know when you had your first cigarette? And you felt dizzy, woozy, and if you went for 2, you pretty much threw up? That's what my co-workers went through, I felt pretty bad for them, having never smoked before but being exposed to nicotine in a roundabout way.

So, advice to the rest of you, avoid using your e-cigarette in enclosed areas!!

Nazareth · 07-10-2008, 06:25 AM

I doubt very seriously they were exposed to enough nicotine to cause them that much discomfort- Especially if you say the vapor was fairly unnoticeable- the only way they could have had reactiosn was for you to sit there bellowing uninhaled vapor at them for quite soem time it was probably more a psychological reaction rather than physical- and another note- it's not just the nicotine that we were gettign sick from when we tried regular ciggs for hte first time, it was all the harsh toxic chemicals- some 4000 or so which these E-Ciggs do not have- They may just be hypersensitive people who are in the minority of peopel who are infact allergic to PG, not the nicotine, or they may have been coming down with something, and conveniently blamed it on the E-smoking too.

leaford · 07-10-2008, 06:45 AM

Yeah. they've done tests and something over 90% of the nicotine is absorbed before you exhale. What you get in the vapor is just PG and water.

E-Cigarette-usa · 07-10-2008, 07:25 AM

Funny. never had no complain so far. the only thing was that my surrounding got there cigarette out thinking its allowed to smoke in that place, then i was ask not to smoke my E-Cigarette because i was confusing people. but nothing more then that.
Good luck.

Klaue · 07-10-2008, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by leaford

Yeah. they've done tests and something over 90% of the nicotine is absorbed before you exhale. What you get in the vapor is just PG and water.

98-99% to be exact. but to be fair, the test used real cigarettes, not e-cigs. It's in the savety test for the ruyan e-cig, but the footnote links to another article as the source and this other article was for real cigs

TheEmperorOfIceCream · 07-10-2008, 01:30 PM

Hammychang, your bullsh*t detector is broken. I've knocked out full-grown adults by waving a cigarette at them.

Probably woulda killed 'em if I lit it...

TropicalBob · 07-10-2008, 02:05 PM

Klaue, note that the VAPOR itself has yet to be tested. Only the liquid has been found safe in New Zealand tests.

I'm mixed on this, since I've had more than one person tell me they "smell" the e-vapor I exhale. It smells like "sweet potatoes" (my wife), "fruit" or "vanilla" (my granddaughters and I WAS smoking a vanilla-extract heavy liquid. The vanilla comment came from children in the back seat of a car I was driving! They were several feet away in a car with air conditioning running.

We do exhaust something. Can people be sensitive to that something? Some might be. And doesn't that spell even more trouble as these things become more widespread in use? Just how many people need to complain "it made me so sick ..."?

dnakr · 07-10-2008, 02:20 PM

I've never had anyone get sick around me but my daughter says she loves the smell of the flue-cured, coffee and menthol mix. She can always tell when I'm smoking that one.

TropicalBob · 07-10-2008, 02:37 PM

I'm getting concerned again .. What's left in the vapor we exhale that might bother some people? We need lab test results. Quickly. The liquid is slick to touch and does leave a film on computer monitors. If people can smell it, there are particles still in it. Oh my. Remember that it was second-hand smoke that really got the public riled against cigarette smoking. We could kill ourselves and they didn't care. But if we so much as irritated one of them .. ban all smoking!

sanneke · 07-10-2008, 02:55 PM

Oh Bob, please do not worry so much.

My husband does not smoke, he stopped after a hart attack he had 5 years ago.
When I first started e-smoking I puffed some in his face and asked him:"do you smell anything"?
I asked my kids the same thing, they smell nothing.

Also the vapor does not hang around like smoke from a cigarette.
It just disappears.

I doubt very much that many people, if any, get sick around an e-smoker get sick.
What where the symptoms?

07-10-2008, 06:15 AM	#1
hammychang Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	The E-Cigarette at work, hazardous. So i got my NJoy last month and I tried it out at the office the next day. While no one noticed an odor, and the vapor was fairly unnoticeable, my co-workers around me started getting sick. I'm assuming I wasn't inhaling the full nicotine content in each puff, and I was spreading the excess nicotine around the air. You know when you had your first cigarette? And you felt dizzy, woozy, and if you went for 2, you pretty much threw up? That's what my co-workers went through, I felt pretty bad for them, having never smoked before but being exposed to nicotine in a roundabout way. So, advice to the rest of you, avoid using your e-cigarette in enclosed areas!!

07-10-2008, 07:25 AM	#4
E-Cigarette-usa Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Hollywood Florida USA. Posts: 1	The E-Cigarette in Public Funny. never had no complain so far. the only thing was that my surrounding got there cigarette out thinking its allowed to smoke in that place, then i was ask not to smoke my E-Cigarette because i was confusing people. but nothing more then that. Good luck.

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07-10-2008, 06:25 AM	#2
Nazareth Super Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA Posts: 1,302	I doubt very seriously they were exposed to enough nicotine to cause them that much discomfort- Especially if you say the vapor was fairly unnoticeable- the only way they could have had reactiosn was for you to sit there bellowing uninhaled vapor at them for quite soem time it was probably more a psychological reaction rather than physical- and another note- it's not just the nicotine that we were gettign sick from when we tried regular ciggs for hte first time, it was all the harsh toxic chemicals- some 4000 or so which these E-Ciggs do not have- They may just be hypersensitive people who are in the minority of peopel who are infact allergic to PG, not the nicotine, or they may have been coming down with something, and conveniently blamed it on the E-smoking too.

07-10-2008, 06:45 AM	#3
leaford Supporting Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: San Francisco, CA USA Posts: 1,757	Yeah. they've done tests and something over 90% of the nicotine is absorbed before you exhale. What you get in the vapor is just PG and water.

07-10-2008, 01:30 PM	#6
TheEmperorOfIceCream Super Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: London, UK Posts: 910	Hammychang, your bullsh*t detector is broken. I've knocked out full-grown adults by waving a cigarette at them. Probably woulda killed 'em if I lit it...

07-10-2008, 02:05 PM	#7
TropicalBob Super Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Port Charlotte, FL USA Posts: 2,514	Klaue, note that the VAPOR itself has yet to be tested. Only the liquid has been found safe in New Zealand tests. I'm mixed on this, since I've had more than one person tell me they "smell" the e-vapor I exhale. It smells like "sweet potatoes" (my wife), "fruit" or "vanilla" (my granddaughters and I WAS smoking a vanilla-extract heavy liquid. The vanilla comment came from children in the back seat of a car I was driving! They were several feet away in a car with air conditioning running. We do exhaust something. Can people be sensitive to that something? Some might be. And doesn't that spell even more trouble as these things become more widespread in use? Just how many people need to complain "it made me so sick ..."?

07-10-2008, 02:20 PM	#8
dnakr Moderator Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 919	I've never had anyone get sick around me but my daughter says she loves the smell of the flue-cured, coffee and menthol mix. She can always tell when I'm smoking that one.

07-10-2008, 02:37 PM	#9
TropicalBob Super Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Port Charlotte, FL USA Posts: 2,514	I'm getting concerned again .. What's left in the vapor we exhale that might bother some people? We need lab test results. Quickly. The liquid is slick to touch and does leave a film on computer monitors. If people can smell it, there are particles still in it. Oh my. Remember that it was second-hand smoke that really got the public riled against cigarette smoking. We could kill ourselves and they didn't care. But if we so much as irritated one of them .. ban all smoking!

07-10-2008, 02:55 PM	#10
sanneke Super Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: USA Posts: 624	Oh Bob, please do not worry so much. My husband does not smoke, he stopped after a hart attack he had 5 years ago. When I first started e-smoking I puffed some in his face and asked him:"do you smell anything"? I asked my kids the same thing, they smell nothing. Also the vapor does not hang around like smoke from a cigarette. It just disappears. I doubt very much that many people, if any, get sick around an e-smoker get sick. What where the symptoms?