"Don't blow your face off," she said.

[Ladypixel]

So, the other day at work, I meandered outside and away from my computer to suck up a few minutes of sun. I was carrying my Lavatube-clone with a Phiniac tank on it, occasionally visiting it for enjoyment's sake, and was just about to head back inside when the gal who cleans our facilities came out.

She did a doubletake, and went 'uh, what are you smoking?'

I explained it was a nicotine inhaler, some people called them e-cigarettes. And she got a rather doubtful look on her face, the sort of look which made me expect she was about to accuse me of taking drugs. What actually came out of her mouth, though, made me burst into laughter. "Well, I hear those things blow up, so don't blow your face off."

Once the initial laughter subsided, I did explain to her that it's a matter of having a good unit rather than an unprotected and dangerous unit, and she sort of went 'uh-huh' and headed off to her next cleaning job. Something tells me she saw it as me sticking a gun in my mouth. I suppose it's better than her assuming I'm doing drugs or something equally odd, at least.

 

[CCC]

I tell em "more chance of your phone blowing your ear off"

 

[tidegirl]

I had my first comment like this recently. Since I was in a bar, she was drinking, and I got the feeling that she didn't really want to hear a full explanation,I just said "This one won't ." Now,in a different setting, and if I felt the person was really interested but concerned, I would fully explain to the best of my non technical ability why my infinity pro will not blow my face off.

 

[VapApe]

I would have said if thats the case , you need this more than I do.

As I get older, I find, I suffer fools less gladly then when I was younger.
But that not saying a whole lot

 

[cricque]

Yeah had that remark also already a couple of times ... I also explained each time what happened and then those people usually still look like, why on earth would you be smoking that ...

Let them have the analogs, just do not touch my ego-c !

 

[Samyaza]

It's funny, but I know that story's turned at least one person off getting an e-cig

Even when I explained what happened and everything else they still decided that analogs were "safer"

 

[ctourtelot]

It's funny, but I know that story's turned at least one person off getting an e-cig

Even when I explained what happened and everything else they still decided that analogs were "safer"

Until they fall asleep with a smoke in their hand and burn their house down or wreck a car because an ember flew into the car :/

 

[Jaguar G]

Until they fall asleep with a smoke in their hand and burn their house down or wreck a car because an ember flew into the car :/

Cigarettes are the leading cause of home fire fatalities in the United States, killing 700 to 900 people - smokers and nonsmokers alike - per year.

One guy puts unprotected batteries in a suspect mod and makes the news by blowing it up in his face. Holy cow, they are dangerous - ridiculous.

Jag

 

[calecamo]

I received lots of e-mails warning me after a local newspaper published a story with very little facts but a bit MAN IN HOSPITAL AFTER E CIG EXPLODED. IN HIS FACE. I just answered back telling the
M I bought a special bag to charge my batteries and a link to a newspaper tittle of a man killed by his cell phone battery

 

[Retriever]

I wish we knew the real facts of what happened in Fla. The man that was injured is doing more harm by not telling the media what went wrong. It is probably a case of user error.

 

[tidegirl]

I wish we knew the real facts of what happened in Fla. The man that was injured is doing more harm by not telling the media what went wrong. It is probably a case of user error.

Well, I;m sure he knows this but he certainly can't admit it in public. Then he could only sue himself and that wouldn't get him very far.

 

[Cyatis]

My friend offered to let me use his for a day.

My response: I cannot take that Lavatube out in public. If I'm going to die vaping in public, it's going to be worth it.

Yes, I was joking.

 

[Roxxette]

Nothing is safe in life , you just have to treat everything with respect i heard of people dying while eating so.....


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[sailorman]

Well, I;m sure he knows this but he certainly can't admit it in public. Then he could only sue himself and that wouldn't get him very far.

I thought it was pretty well established that he was stacking unprotected batteries.

Anyway, he's in Florida. We have "tort reform". Even if it was proven to be the battery or PV manuf. fault and even if it disabled him for life, he'd only net a couple hundred grand after lawyers fees. The good news is that once it's all spent on therapists and home health aides, Medicaid and the taxpayers will support him for the rest of his life, so the insurance co. stockholders won't have to lose any of their dividends.

 

[jpargana]

Yep, unfourtunately, that's the way news work... ONE person is injured because of a battery related problem (not and e-cig related problem: if someone was injured because of PG inhalation, that would be different), and we have it all over the news. Yet, there's not a single word, on a daily basis, about who died today from lung cancer, COPD, etc... if they managed to do that, people would quickly understand how much safer (not safe) the PV is... of course, the accident with the e-cig is news, because it is so rare. Unfournately, the same cannot be said about people who die from tobacco... it's so mainstream, it's not news anymore... dumb people tend to forget that.

 

[Wolf308]

The first day I was vaping, a friend saw it and said the same thing. "You know some guy in Florida just blew his face off with one, so check that thing for malfunctions." I just looked at him. I explained why he was being super ironic (I won't go into that because it'll turn into a thread hijack that really doesn't belong here) and then gave him a clue by telling him his cell phone would give him a brain tumor - just to drive the point home that he needed to look into it a little more. There is no man made device on the planet that is completely safe.