When giant multinational media reports it, ask yourself who is interested in the particular spin. If vaping is tightly regulated, we'll be pushed to chose between expensive throwaway cigalikes and mech mods. I'm not impressed by that NBC news article.
Toward the day when nanny government will take away my eLeaf and all other safe, chip regulated vaping devices, I stockpiled the plastic bolt mod, which uses one 18650 battery and is vented. I would never use anything requiring stacked batteries. That's what blew that guy's face off in Florida, the famous "ecigarettes are dangerous" poster child who made his own unventilated stacked battery mod, which is something like a pipe bomb in actual comparison.
Remember, cell phones explode and start fires all the time, begging a statistical comparison. So do laptops. Nobody is screaming to get them off the market In fact, chip regulated vaping devices have exploded and started fires. There are safe and unsafe ways to do everything. Every vaping device needs to come with instructions, unfortunately, to say that you don't let your vape flop around the car seat or bang against your keys and coins in your pocket, that you don't leave it turned on when it is put away in a purse or pocket.
Sometimes it feels like swimming against the tide to address concerns that are fueled by an ignorant press pandering to the zealots whose voices are louder than those of us who just want to keep practicing a safe smoking cessation method that has worked for us for years.
Cigarettes have burned down houses and forests. I wish nuclear power plants would get the same continuous public scrutiny that vaping does. Should we ban cars because people get killed in them all the time?
Keep your eye on the prize. Vaping saves lives. My dad and my uncle died of emphysema. I was on my way there, to a slow death attached to an oxygen tank, until my good friends, who were a year from their last cigarettes, put me onto vaping. Now those friends are nearly 8 years past their last cigarette, and I'm near the completion of my seventh year.
