no you twisted what I said, at no point in time did I say it was idiots, YOU did
You may not have used the word idiot itself but I get the same thing from it as Bad Ninja. Your point is that cheap products make it easier for people that don't know how to use them, get them. No sane, rational, or smart person would buy a product without some knowledge of how to use it, or at the very least learn before use, therefore idiots.
If we were to just look at cost alone, the istick 50W is much cheaper than a mech. in all regards. Mechs. are not actually a cheap option, by the time you buy a mod, batteries, and a charger, one has spent enough to buy a smaller wattage device (30W to 75W) easily.
No the people using mechs. and getting hurt are either A- not informed, B- don't care, or C- A&B together. I'm sure some incidents do happen with advanced vapers but those are not plastered on the news. Those people know what they did or did not do and don't want to make a scene. It's the people that for some reason or another lack common sense to learn their device and it's limitations.
I again look at automobiles, they are safer now than they have ever been, yet more people are dying and/or being hurt by accidents. Why? Well it goes back to a false sense of security, people that feel safer do riskier things. People that become complacent make mistakes, it happens in everything in everyday life, not just with vaping. These device are not toys, yet how many people have you seen treat them like toys? Many people do not understand that these batteries are not the AA's in their remote.
This story proves the guy did not know anything. The tank is made to run low on high watts, not on mech. mods. If the guy had took the time to at least learn ohms law, he would have never been hurt because he would have not used that tank on that mod. If his wife is to be belived about a fireball (I see no reason not to believe her) it means he was NOT using safer chem. batteries. There again he did not do his homework and his injury is (unfortunate) his own fault.
Safer chem. batteries can vent but are less violent and rarely have a flame, in the event of a flame there wouldn't be a "fireball" for sure. I'm willing to be he was running an ICR, which is great for a flashlight but bad for you face.
People need to quit making excuses for stupidity, be it actions or advice.