Exploding E-cigs on the news....

[johnm1971]

I was just watching the news and saw a piece on the terrible dangers of E-cigs exploding in people's pockets. I think we all know that these incidents are happening because of user error. These freaking ...... are going to ruin vaping for all of us because they don't understand battery safety. Incindents like these are exactly why they want to place all kinds of regulations on vaping equipment! As usual, a few bad apples spoils the bunch!

 

[NOVA jon]

I was just watching the news and saw a piece on the terrible dangers of E-cigs exploding in people's pockets. I think we all know that these incidents are happening because of user error. These freaking ...... are going to ruin vaping for all of us because they don't understand battery safety. Incindents like these are exactly why they want to place all kinds of regulations on vaping equipment! As usual, a few bad apples spoils the bunch!

While I admire the fact that you believe incidents like this are user error, I don't think this is the reason they want to place regulations, it's about money!! Unfortunately, sensible education and common sense age restrictions is never enough due to the fact that big tobacco and big pharma is hemmoraging cash because of the ecig industry. What better way to recoup some of that monies than to tax and regulate the bejeeeezus out of vaping!!!

 

[daviedog]

^^ and if it didn't happen, the FDA would just make it up..

 

[johnm1971]

While I admire the fact that you believe incidents like this are user error, I don't think this is the reason they want to place regulations, it's about money!! Unfortunately, sensible education and common sense age restrictions is never enough due to the fact that big tobacco and big pharma is hemmoraging cash because of the ecig industry. What better way to recoup some of that monies than to tax and regulate the bejeeeezus out of vaping!!![/QU

While I admire the fact that you believe incidents like this are user error, I don't think this is the reason they want to place regulations, it's about money!! Unfortunately, sensible education and common sense age restrictions is never enough due to the fact that big tobacco and big pharma is hemmoraging cash because of the ecig industry. What better way to recoup some of that monies than to tax and regulate the bejeeeezus out of vaping!!!

Good point. It is all about money. The "exploding e-cig incidents" just gives them excuses to go through with the regulations.

 

[NOVA jon]

Good point. It is all about money. The "exploding e-cig incidents" just gives them excuses to go through with the regulations.

Yes!! Of course that just gives them a little more amunition! The "ecig users are too stupid to save themselves so we (FDA, big tobacco, big pharma) need to do it, our way, with lots of red tape, hocus pocus paperwork to meet our standards and money, we need money to make all of these things happen...." kind of knee jerk reaction that too much government tends to make!!

 

[Flt Simulation]

The media and the government sure seem to be throwing stones at e-cig users and the manufacturers who make these products ... They just feel a need to save ourselves from doing bodily harm and self-destruction.

Kind of a pity they don't worry much about people drinking so much alcohol in a night that they pass out and then die by morning of alcohol poisoning ... or warn us of the dangers of drinking a jug of Clorox bleach (that anyone can buy at the store).

Nope .... lets just grab this whole vaping thing and put a stop to it as fast as we can before these idiots that like to vape just blow themselves up or wind up in the hospital with 3rd degree burns all over there face and hands !

I am so sick and tired of 'big-brother' trying to tell me how to live my life, and what's good for me and what's not (like I was some 8 year old kid) !

BS !

 

[VHRB2014]

They tried to ruin the Automobile too. How`d that work out for them? LOL

 

[Eskie]

The reason you're seeing all these videos of exploding e cigs is because we now live in a world where everywhere you turn you're on some video monitoring you, whether stores, buses, or even just walking down the street. TV news loves, and needs, dramatic video to increase, if not at least hold, their audience. Watching someone's pocket blow up with sparks and flames is great footage to air. And if anyone doubts that TV news has become anything other than an entertainment source driven by ratings, just look at the last US election.

In the last 24 hours, I'm aware of 2 exploding e cigs "caught on tape". One in Britain, the other in CA. That's what, 7000 miles apart? Yet despite the distance, and the fact that in NY I'm ~3,000 miles away from both, and because news has become so immediate, it feels like it's happening right outside my home. Until we get (fat chance) thoughtful and careful analysis of events, reality TV news will win out and exploding pockets will be the buzz of today. Until a Kardashian figures out some way of drawing the media's attention for another 15 minutes.

 

[puffon]

The media has been given their agenda, demonize e-cigs.
Wonder how many cell phones caught fire today?
How many house fires from careless smoking were started today?
Interesting that the British media reported the cause was a loose battery in the pocket, and gave warnings.
Not so with the US media....

 

[sofarsogood]

I've been following ecig injury reports as close as I can for the past 2 years. Nearly all the incidents involve either loose batteries with exposed terminals or mech mods. They rarely mention company product names because there aren't any. Lately there seem to be fewer stories about mechs and mostly about loose batteries. What I'm perceiving about the press since the election is they're taking all the cheap shots they can think of before the new President takes office. Before the election I told people, I'm voting for Trump because if I have to be miserable I want company. That turned out to be prophetic.

P.S. What did Trump say when he was told he won the election? Oops.

 

[Zanderist]

You guys know they will demonize vaping, and make it seem that only a big company can make safe device....

They will try to make them out to be bombs and further their attack on the vape market.

They always never mention that only of certain age and education level can you have these devices.

It is always a call to arms for more government intervention.


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[Zanderist]

Set aside you politics people...no one cares who you supported in the last election.

We need to unite the vapers, people.

Stop this senseless belly aching over who the American president is.

The election is over.

Get over it people.

We need a United front for vaping right now.

Again, set aside your politics.

GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE GUTTER!


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[Bunnykiller]

Lawn Mower Injury Alert: What You Need to Know

and 80,000 people in the US are maimed by lawn mowers on an annual basis .... I think vaping is safer

 

[Bad Ninja]

Regs have nothing to do with safety.
Search the threads here on ECF for more good info than you care to read on the issue.
The media is slanted on the topic of e cigs just like every other topic they have touched in in the last 2 years.
Its all "smoke".

Voting is the only real solution.
Get rid of the crooks that support these regulations.