Am I the only one?
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RG1971, Vapolith & others are right, mobile phones are every bit as likely to blow up in your face - so tell your "friends" that 
BTW, there are so many better & cheaper alternatives to VIP e-cigs.
BTW, there are so many better & cheaper alternatives to VIP e-cigs.
Analogs Do kill, You have a much higher chance of being killed by a coconut, or a Hippo, Or an alcoholic drink (i could keep going) then haveing a battery blow up during use. I have had an Iphone battery leak in my pocket from an Iphone 3gs. No one banned those, and that hasnt hit news worthy status. I switched to Samsung after that. Point is there is alot of dangers in life, Dont pray on our choices saying we are bad while your sneaking your habits in the closet... At least we are honest and trying a less dangerous form of our habit.
Dang Haunted,
Just saw 35 people throwing their PV's out the car window, at one stop light.....
Just saw 35 people throwing their PV's out the car window, at one stop light.....
I have two stock responses to this sort of thing:
In the first, I would normally ask "Do you think this is an inherent issue with e-cigarettes as a fully-conceived product, or one of batteries as a component of that product?"
If the power cord of my refrigerator fails, that doesn't indict refrigeration. It indicts faulty power cords. I take the same care with my vaping batteries as I do to check the power cord of a refrigerator before I buy one. I don't trash my stereo receiver and turntable because the headphones have died, nor do my faulty headphones inform us to not own sound systems.
Similarly, an exploding battery does not indict e-cigarettes, unless batteries which explode are an integral and necessary component of them.
The argument rests on isolating a disreputable part from a sound whole. I know a girl who feels distressed to have been born with four toes on one of her feet. This doesn't mean her mind, heart, soul, or the remainder of her body are somehow "broken".
My second, related argument asks if the disreputable example is also representative of the whole. Does a particular faulty battery, and therefore particular faulty e-cigarette represent the industry?
I once lived next to a home that exploded from a gas line break. It wasn't a representative enough example of homes and gas lines in general to make me want to live in a tent eating cold canned food with my body wrapped in sweaters. My example of an exploding house reflects neither the building industry nor power companies generally.
It's the same kind of argument I use against questionable inductive leaps, or prejudices. I once lived in a city where a female black police officer was convicted for corruption. It was too insufficient an example to compel me to sexism, racism, or anarchy.
In the first, I would normally ask "Do you think this is an inherent issue with e-cigarettes as a fully-conceived product, or one of batteries as a component of that product?"
If the power cord of my refrigerator fails, that doesn't indict refrigeration. It indicts faulty power cords. I take the same care with my vaping batteries as I do to check the power cord of a refrigerator before I buy one. I don't trash my stereo receiver and turntable because the headphones have died, nor do my faulty headphones inform us to not own sound systems.
Similarly, an exploding battery does not indict e-cigarettes, unless batteries which explode are an integral and necessary component of them.
The argument rests on isolating a disreputable part from a sound whole. I know a girl who feels distressed to have been born with four toes on one of her feet. This doesn't mean her mind, heart, soul, or the remainder of her body are somehow "broken".
My second, related argument asks if the disreputable example is also representative of the whole. Does a particular faulty battery, and therefore particular faulty e-cigarette represent the industry?
I once lived next to a home that exploded from a gas line break. It wasn't a representative enough example of homes and gas lines in general to make me want to live in a tent eating cold canned food with my body wrapped in sweaters. My example of an exploding house reflects neither the building industry nor power companies generally.
It's the same kind of argument I use against questionable inductive leaps, or prejudices. I once lived in a city where a female black police officer was convicted for corruption. It was too insufficient an example to compel me to sexism, racism, or anarchy.
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If memory serves there was a newspaper article about that happening to one guy. Follow up was that he had a homemade mod and not enough knowledge of battery power. As a matter of common sense don't leave your charging batteries unattended. Even the best can fail, and cheaper/mis-labelled batteries and poorly made chargers could increase the catastrophic failure rate!
I've heard the reason the ecig blew up is the guy modded his ecig and put in a battery that was way too powerful for the device and that's why it blew. The story about the one in the car was because she left it charging for too long(like a couple days) and in a hot car, wish they released what brand it was though. Haven't had any problems with any of my joyetech stuff
To me it sounds like big tobacco and the man just trying to scare people out of using ecigs
To me it sounds like big tobacco and the man just trying to scare people out of using ecigs
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Definitely a bit of propaganda, but this is not an excuse for people to not head the safety warnings. Batteries can be defective, things happen. But mostly this is a concern of mechanical mod users carelessly building crazy sub-ohm coils and don't monitor batteries correctly. A battery is going to vent before it just explodes for the most part.
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