LA times article

[TheKingOfKool]

Electronic cigarettes: From China, electronic cigarettes head for the U.S. market - Los Angeles Times

[toki smoki]

Good article. Positive to the e-cig cause.

[Letzin Hale]

Positive, even if the research wasn't too thorough, " A company in Japan is selling one that is charged by the USB port of a computer."

What we need to counteract quickly are claims such as the one below from the "tobacco control chief" (aka he who receives the biggest brown envelope! allegedly).

"The way they were being sold, there was no control. A kid could buy it and take too many puffs. You could overdose on nicotine," said Ronald Lam, tobacco control chief of the health department in Hong Kong, where 800 shops were raided last month and the entire e-stash confiscated.

At 30mg/kg body weight to cause a youngster harm, it would require ingesting 1200mg for a 40kg kid. At the highest level normally available of 36mg, it would take over 33ml to cause harm. With 1ml giving up to 400 puffs (I managed 200 from 0.4ml), it would then take 13,333 puffs in a relative short space of time to overdose to the point of illness. One way to achieve this would be to insert an industrial vacuum cleaner into the anus, but I imagine that these have already been declared illegal by the HK authorities!!
I remember when I was kid seeing the huge and sudden rise in cheap imports from HK to the UK, mainly plastic toys in my world and boy there was some awful and potentially dangerous crap produced. Now they are coming all high and mighty over ecigs in order to defend tobacco interests.
We gave HK back to the Chinese and now they are letting HK compromise their exports, WTF is that all about? It's time China kicked some butt and took proper control!!
Alan.

[bizzyb0t]

I already posted about this... http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/for...le-e-cigs.html

There's a link to search the forums near the top, that way we don't end up with a hundred posts about the same thing.