I am not at all concerned about second-hand e-smoke posing some risk to public health.
Just breathing is dangerous. What if I have a virus and the viral particles are carried on tiny water vapor droplets from my lungs that can't even be seen because I'm not vaping? I suspect millions of people worldwide become ill every year simply from being in proximity to other human beings who have the audacity to breathe! And let's not forget the very real hazards of shaking hands, sneezes, coughs and more!
And right now I am chewing green apple flavored gum. The flavor compounds are so powerful that people have noted its smell in passing; demonstrating that at least SOME of those artificial flavoring compounds (and who knows what they are because they are proprietary) have been volatilized and are now being breathed in by those around me. How do we know these compounds aren't super-carcinogens? What if some nearby kid has an allergy, goes into shock and dies?
And let's not forget that some places are perfume-free-zones because, of course, that little dab of "Nude" by Bill Blass underneath my hair at the nape of my neck is going to strike some poor unsuspecting bystander dead on the spot!
I'm trying to say this somewhat politely, but my sentiment is not exactly polite.
A few generations ago Manifest Destiny was fulfilled by people braving all manner of risk and privation in a world without antibiotics, x-ray machines, cell phones and Coca Cola. These people's descendants survived the dustbowl, the Great Depression, the Civil War and amputations sterilized through cauterization.
And their grandchildren flop over dead at a waft of PERFUME?
What we have is a population of people who are so pampered, so protected, so much their parent's little protected darlings that they have nothing more important to worry about than my exhalation of the exact same substances that they just ate for lunch.
No, I am not at all worried about health risks to third parties from my exhaled vapor. The biggest risks from my exhaled vapor are that someone will trip on his shoelaces while 'running to mommy' to complain and break his neck. Or, if he isn't a pansy he might accidentally walk into a wall while craning his neck to look at how fetching I look exhaling and holding my purple XL battery and pink cartomizer.
Just breathing is dangerous. What if I have a virus and the viral particles are carried on tiny water vapor droplets from my lungs that can't even be seen because I'm not vaping? I suspect millions of people worldwide become ill every year simply from being in proximity to other human beings who have the audacity to breathe! And let's not forget the very real hazards of shaking hands, sneezes, coughs and more!
And right now I am chewing green apple flavored gum. The flavor compounds are so powerful that people have noted its smell in passing; demonstrating that at least SOME of those artificial flavoring compounds (and who knows what they are because they are proprietary) have been volatilized and are now being breathed in by those around me. How do we know these compounds aren't super-carcinogens? What if some nearby kid has an allergy, goes into shock and dies?
And let's not forget that some places are perfume-free-zones because, of course, that little dab of "Nude" by Bill Blass underneath my hair at the nape of my neck is going to strike some poor unsuspecting bystander dead on the spot!
I'm trying to say this somewhat politely, but my sentiment is not exactly polite.
A few generations ago Manifest Destiny was fulfilled by people braving all manner of risk and privation in a world without antibiotics, x-ray machines, cell phones and Coca Cola. These people's descendants survived the dustbowl, the Great Depression, the Civil War and amputations sterilized through cauterization.
And their grandchildren flop over dead at a waft of PERFUME?
What we have is a population of people who are so pampered, so protected, so much their parent's little protected darlings that they have nothing more important to worry about than my exhalation of the exact same substances that they just ate for lunch.
No, I am not at all worried about health risks to third parties from my exhaled vapor. The biggest risks from my exhaled vapor are that someone will trip on his shoelaces while 'running to mommy' to complain and break his neck. Or, if he isn't a pansy he might accidentally walk into a wall while craning his neck to look at how fetching I look exhaling and holding my purple XL battery and pink cartomizer.
