It happened last Monday, according to news reports, so it's a separate, but very similar incident from the one a couple of weeks ago.
Cigarette explosion: Man loses part of tongue when electronic cigarette explodes - OrlandoSentinel.com
A faulty battery caused an electronic cigarette to explode
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It happened last Monday, according to news reports, so it's a separate, but very similar incident from the one a couple of weeks ago.
Cigarette explosion: Man loses part of tongue when electronic cigarette explodes - OrlandoSentinel.com
You posted about the Colorado man. This guy was in Florida and is being treated in Alabama's burn unit. It was a mod he was using to my understanding. What I DON't understand is why didn't he notice that the tube was getting hot? Something isn't right there. I had one experience with a brand new battery that went into meltdown (PCB protected bat). The tube of the mods got really hot which tipped me off. I ran out of the house with it and got the cap off, shook the batteries out. All was well but still he should have noticed something.
Some ECF info for those that may need it...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...s/76078-exploding-mods-current-situation.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...s/76078-exploding-mods-current-situation.html
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Lithium ions don`t explode often - but they do explode. They do burn and they do go bang. I really believe that every safety precaution needs to be in play with every PV - mod or not (protection circuits, vent areas that point away from the mouth part, protected batteries, warnings not to use any other but the rated and recommended batteries, etc).
How heartbreaking for this man to have these injuries.
Hope he recovers soon - and completely.
It's horrifying and I hope the best for this poor guy and his family.
I'll refrain from making an eGo-T-N-T joke.
I'll refrain from making an eGo-T-N-T joke.
Yeah that really is scary. Has this occurred in other cases - not during smoking, but during the charging?
FTFA:
"The Food and Drug Administration posted a warning about the cigarettes on its website in October saying that e-cigarettes were addictive, could contain dangerous chemicals like nicotine and might encourage kids to try other tobacco products."
How.....hypocritical of them....
It sounds like a mod, simply because they mention a charging station and spare batteries.
I think the press has their timeline wrong - that - or the details were just released to them now.
From the information in all the articles and stories and the threads here - it would appear to be the same incident.
Maybe the confusion is coming from the fact that this story is just now breaking in the news. The man is being released from a burn unit he was transferred to - from Florida to Alabama - this week - so it most certainly didn't happen on Monday.
The person who reported this on the forums originally was a friend of the man and his wife and learned of the incident via phone. It's that poster who is from Colorado - not the victim.
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Electric cigarette explodes in man's mouth
This was on a news site here in Australia today. I find it curious that they would run this story prominently as eCigs are fairly sparse here, most people havn't seen one so its unlikely to be of general interest, surely
Perhaps a dirt file on eCigs is being started here by the usual suspects, (or am I being unnecessarily suspicious )
That poor man, how horrible is this awful accident.
This was on a news site here in Australia today. I find it curious that they would run this story prominently as eCigs are fairly sparse here, most people havn't seen one so its unlikely to be of general interest, surely
Perhaps a dirt file on eCigs is being started here by the usual suspects, (or am I being unnecessarily suspicious )
That poor man, how horrible is this awful accident.
I think your being Unnecessarily Suspicious.
People, and the News, Love to hear/tell about People getting Hurt in Unusually Ways. Maybe it is Human Nature or Maybe it is just the Sad State of the World we live in.
just google exploding cellphone batteries, People have died because of it...
but that doesn't make the news often.
e-cigs are just as dangerous as any other electronic device.
it is up to us as the consumer to purchase a device that has the necessarily safeguards built in to prevent injury.
AND, it is up to the supplier to take any device off the shelf that does not have these safety standards...
venting, built in circuitry, and so on.
but that doesn't make the news often.
e-cigs are just as dangerous as any other electronic device.
it is up to us as the consumer to purchase a device that has the necessarily safeguards built in to prevent injury.
AND, it is up to the supplier to take any device off the shelf that does not have these safety standards...
venting, built in circuitry, and so on.
Too true. My coworkers were talking about this like e-cigs are somehow especially dangerous. I reminded them that ipods, iphones, mp3 players, laptops, and anything that has a Lithium battery in it has exploded at one point.
It's a tragedy, but inevitable. Essentially, we as a society are accepting the risks inherent with these batteries because of the convenience they provide.
If you want to avoid these risks, you can always get a passthrough sans battery... and stick to writing letters and using pay phones.
It's a tragedy, but inevitable. Essentially, we as a society are accepting the risks inherent with these batteries because of the convenience they provide.
If you want to avoid these risks, you can always get a passthrough sans battery... and stick to writing letters and using pay phones.
This man, his family and friends are in my prayers. This is definitely not good news for the ecig community. I don't know if he was battery stacking, the mod was unsafe, the batts were unsafe or what. I guess those details haven't been released. I hate this sort of press.
Would be nice to know whether it just explode without warning. Or does it get unusually hot before it does? Anything we can learn from these incidents? Anyone from the e-cig industry interested in interviewing these victims to get more details?
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