Dubai Blocks E-Cig Consignment

[Basil]

I got my first ecig last month IN Dubai. Bahrain bans commercial shipments but bringing unit in for your personal use in still ok apparently.
Too bad that the various Arabian Gulf Health authorities blindly follow what the FDA has posted up.
The various countries in the region can be as different as night and day- so blanket statements about any part or all the region smack of a relative lack of local information (sorry no offense intended to anyone).

Thing is, with the imperfect amount of knowledgeon them e-cigs have to be safer than analogs which have been proven to kill. They should be an available alternative for analog smokers who can't/won't quit...

Never gonna go back to analogs that's for sure....

Bas (see my location)

 

[Superstargoddess]

I got my first ecig last month IN Dubai. Bahrain bans commercial shipments but bringing unit in for your personal use in still ok apparently.
Too bad that the various Arabian Gulf Health authorities blindly follow what the FDA has posted up.
The various countries in the region can be as different as night and day- so blanket statements about any part or all the region smack of a relative lack of local information (sorry no offense intended to anyone).

Thing is, with the imperfect amount of knowledgeon them e-cigs have to be safer than analogs which have been proven to kill. They should be an available alternative for analog smokers who can't/won't quit...

Never gonna go back to analogs that's for sure....

Bas (see my location)

I don't know if it's really been proven 100% for sure that if you smoke analogs that you will die FOR SURE.

 

[Basil]

I don't know if it's really been proven 100% for sure that if you smoke analogs that you will die FOR SURE.

I do believe that I put it fairly clearly above:- Smoking cigarettes has been proven beyond any doubt to cause avoidable fatal illnesses - not that anyone who smokes would die from the habit.

 

[JustMeAgain]

I wonder how the people working at the FDA cope with knowing their biased reports have prevented people addicted to nicotine an alternate delivery method that works.

I've wondered how they sleep at night...even if they sincerely believe they are in the right (which I doubt) the responsibility is personally upon them to be reasonable and objective and that is their major failing.

Not only for those of us in the US, but as someone said, other countries will follow their lead.

 

[Talen]

This is very sad and a bad omen worldwide.

Its crucial to not confuse Dubai with its dysfunctional neighbors. Dubai is a modern business city much like Singapore. The government is VERY pro-trade and socially, pretty progressive. You can wear a chador or burka but you can also wear a bikini.

Especially at a time like this with Dubai business and real estate down and the emirate needing more commerce, they don't want to exclude products. Its a bad sign that smaller world governments will listen to the FDA's half truths and quickly act in a knee-jerk manner.

Outside of China, we may become an 'underground' community in a shockingly short time.

You can also go to jail for kissing a woman in public and or visiting a woman in her room if you are not married to her. There is absolutely nothing progressive about this ... backwards country.

 

[dopebeat]

I don't know if it's really been proven 100% for sure that if you smoke analogs that you will die FOR SURE.

Every smoker definitely dies. I'd guess that tobacco would catch them all if they lived long enough but could be wrong.

 

[Superstargoddess]

Every smoker definitely dies. I'd guess that tobacco would catch them all if they lived long enough but could be wrong.

Well, everyone in general dies eventually. But I just don't think that if you smoke, it 100% means that you are going to get cancer or die from a smoking related cause. Like I have said, I can go have a car wreck today and die, should we ban cars because of all the accidents? I bet that more people die from car crashes than die from smoking.

 

[ladyraj]

Every smoker definitely dies. I'd guess that tobacco would catch them all if they lived long enough but could be wrong.

Well...every non-smoker definately dies as well.

 

[KonaNeil]

You can also go to jail for kissing a woman in public and or visiting a woman in her room if you are not married to her. There is absolutely nothing progressive about this ... backwards country.

My point was that their inclination would be to not exclude a product. If they do, probably many more small countries will too.

Regarding propriety; They are part of a different culture from ours. If you want the customs where you go to be just like home, stay in N. America. You've got quite a large area to roam.

Your two examples were interesting. Makes me feel really old. I can remember having to sneak into my first wife's hotel room before we were married. Not sure if the hotel would have kicked her out or called the police and had us both arrested but I remember a warning sign. Some of our states still have "Blue Laws" left unchanged from the 19th century and these days selectively enforced.

Arrested for kissing? Maybe, but within my lifetime you could get hung in some of our southern states for just holding hands or winking at a girl if you were the wrong color.

The surface differences between cultures have been vanishing over the last century. I'm not sure this is all for the good. While I'm happy to see CNN when I turn on the TV in my hotel room after a 14 hour flight and thankful the desk clerk tries to speak American English, traveling was somehow more interesting before every world city had all the same shops in malls that all looked the same.