Irresponsible Parenting Giving Electronic Cigarettes a Bad Name

[sherwood865]

Electronic cigarettes are being given a bad name because of irresponsible parenting. I'm so sick and tired of the media trying to blame everything on e-cigarettes when they should be placing the blame on the parents. Here is a story that you will never hear about in the news: Irresponsible Parenting Giving Vaping a Bad Name

 

[DrMA]

nicely done!

 

[drksideken]

Thanks for that read. It was very good.

 

[AgentAnia]

Such a rational and obvious conclusion! Are the media so brainwashed by ANTZ propaganda that this idea eludes them? Do people reading the "ecigs are poisoning our children" articles come to the same rational conclusion, or are they brainwashed too?

 

[Samariel]

I just posted this on Facebook in response to several friends who have been posting articles on "Poisonous e-liquid".

 

[Bill Godshall]

Blaming parents only distracts from the real issues.

Most importantly, all of the news stories about e-cig poisoning were manufactured by e-cig prohibitionists, who will say anything they think will pressure the Obama administration to allow the FDA to propose/impose the deeming regulation, which would ban all e-cigs.

Secondly, there has never been a confirmed case of a human death caused by ingestion of nicotine (nor by transdermal absorption).

When a person drinks e-liquid, the body promptly vomits it out (just as occurs when a person accidentally swallows chewing tobacco juice).

The CDC stated that vomiting, nausea and eye irritation were the most adverse reactions reported to the poison control centers for e-cig (or e-liquid) exposures.

So there really is no such thing as nicotine poisoning.

Also, the poison control centers classify any use (or even touching) of an e-cig as a “toxic exposure”, even though all of the reported exposures (so far) have been nontoxic.

This is all hysteria being manufactured by e-cig prohibitionists.

 

[guambred]

Every time I see "The Story" on facebook, I end up flooding up the posters page with links debunking this junk. So far I have one person who tried again to share the poison story only once. Thank you Jeff Sherwood for the ammo!

 

[rothenbj]

Every time I see "The Story" on facebook, I end up flooding up the posters page with links debunking this junk. So far I have one person who tried again to share the poison story only once. Thank you Jeff Sherwood for the ammo!

I know what you're saying. I got into a thread where three different people chimed in with what they heard from MSM in sound bites. I threw as much ammo at it as possible. The funny thing about even the claims made by the CDC really have to be drilled into on a case by case basis.

Someone posted, perhaps right here, a consideration that needs to be explored, the fact that nicotine is being advertised as a deadly poison. While it's true that at high levels it is poisonous, at vaping levels it generally is not. I just had a spill where a new, full tank broke on my gf's APV. She had liquid on her hands and mine were covered when I took it from her. I took the tank off and cleaned the APV up, then washed my hands. I put a new tank on and gave it back to her telling her to wash her hands. Five or ten minutes later I was passing by and asked her if she had washed and I got, "No, I'm going to take a shower in a few". I got a little upset that she hadn't already done as I asked, which is pretty normal. Considering that it was 24mg liquid, she had a chance of getting a reaction, but she didn't.

The reverse is true of a lot of people. They've heard and understand that there are risks, particularly if they've only gotten their education from MSM. Any exposure whatsoever, even a drop of liquid, could result in a call that would end up as a CDC incident. Without knowing the extent of the exposures reported, you really cannot evaluate what that total number means.