Any one care to comment?

[Hinterscher]

I found this comment on e cigs on the evil (LOL) DX. :
Pointing out that electronic "cigarettes" don't emit CO2 is a bit deceptive. Since real cigerettes are made of tobacco, a plant, the CO2 they emit when burned is not fossil. When the tobacco growers grow new plants, the circle is complete. Just burning stuff that's already in the earth's surface is not any problem at all - at least not from a climate perspective. The CO2 problem comes from digging up CO2 that is millions of years old, buried underground.

I'm not even sure how they get the nicotine for the juice, but that would make a big influence on the comment. I would like to have a good rebuttal for this comment but don't know enough about the nicotine extraction process to do it. It sounds like bunk to me though. I think that if we are getting any CO2 from the nicotine it is such a small amount as to be negligible.

Missy

 

[sadtranz]

Dekang get nic from tobacco leaf, any way the more co2 in the atmosphere the bigger the plants grow so problem solved

 

[geeker]

If you're breathing you're emitting CO2

 

[DiscoDes]

Are you sure it's CO2 and not CO? CO is detrimental to health. CO2 is generally inert, it only kills you by the absence of oxygen if i'm correct?

 

[Hinterscher]

I copied and pasted what the ....., sorry, person typed. I posted it just purely out of amazement of what some people will come up with. Now, according to this person, we're even harming the environment by vaping! Gimme a break......

 

[a2dcovert]

I feel we are just beginning to hear a lot of things done in the name of "saving the earth". It will be a cash cow for a lot of people who are in the right position. I'm all for treading lightly and doing my part to stop polution. I just don't think foolish things should become the law of the land and end up costing everyone so much more to live for no real gain.

Kevin

 

[Kent C]

I just don't think foolish things should become the law of the land and end up costing everyone so much more to live for no real gain.

Kevin

If everyone complied with the Kyoto protocol, in one century, the global temperature would drop 1/25 of one degree and costing 10's of trillions of dollars.