I live in College Station, Texas. It is a medium size town in the southeast part of Texas, home to Texas A&M University. Recently, the city council met to vote on imposing similar regulations on vaping as is in place for smoking cigarettes. Many local businesses have already imposed restrictions to basically ban vaping in their establishments. I personally was not surprised that such things would start happening here, but I think that many people, including our local government are focusing on the wrong thing to regulate.
I have been vaping now for about three months. For over 35 years I was a smoker. I never had an issue when the government stepped in an imposed regulations to protect others from second hand smoke. And even though I know that vaping does not pose any harm to others, I don't have a problem with not subjecting others to my second hand vapors.
What I think the government needs to take a very hard look at is the mods and batteries that are imported in to this country. I have found that the majority of the regulated devices and non-regulated mechanical mods that come in to this country are imported from China. A lot of batteries also come from China. Almost all electronics / electrical appliances, etc. sold in this country are required to have a UL listing on them. In other words, to have met testing standards for their safety. Yet, people are walking around in public with subohm mechanical devices with batteries in them, that are potential pipe bombs.
As for some of the so-called safe regulated devices, I recently purchased a Cloupor T5 50w regulated device that after using it for three days, fired itself and if I had not got the battery out of it quick, could of definitely exploded in a room with my wife and three dogs in it. I will not post despairing remarks against Chinese busineses, however I must say that many of them could care less if the devices they sell are safe or not.
In regards to juices, I do think they should be subject to FDA regulations in the manufacturing and distribution of the same. One company sent me a liter of 100% nicotine in a plastic bottle with absolutely no handling instructions. I had no idea how dangerous it is but something told me to talk with a local vape shop owner before I tried to mix it or God forbid vape it pure. If I had not, I would probably be dead right now because I did not know I could not just stick it in my RDA and vape it. As for the juices that I buy, I try to buy well known brands, but in reality, I have very little confidence in what may be in them and or how cleanly they are manufactured.
Finally, I understand that government regulation will most likely restrict our use of vaping devices and end up driving the cost of vaping to cigarette levels. I dread such a thing as much as I dread a plague outbreak, yet what is the answer? Can we continue to allow the Chinese to export devices in to our country that could possibly cause serious injury to its user and or those who come in contact with the same? As for juices, without FDA regulation, how can we be assured of what we may be inhaling in to our lungs is possibly worse than the cigarettes we have given up?
I have been vaping now for about three months. For over 35 years I was a smoker. I never had an issue when the government stepped in an imposed regulations to protect others from second hand smoke. And even though I know that vaping does not pose any harm to others, I don't have a problem with not subjecting others to my second hand vapors.
What I think the government needs to take a very hard look at is the mods and batteries that are imported in to this country. I have found that the majority of the regulated devices and non-regulated mechanical mods that come in to this country are imported from China. A lot of batteries also come from China. Almost all electronics / electrical appliances, etc. sold in this country are required to have a UL listing on them. In other words, to have met testing standards for their safety. Yet, people are walking around in public with subohm mechanical devices with batteries in them, that are potential pipe bombs.
As for some of the so-called safe regulated devices, I recently purchased a Cloupor T5 50w regulated device that after using it for three days, fired itself and if I had not got the battery out of it quick, could of definitely exploded in a room with my wife and three dogs in it. I will not post despairing remarks against Chinese busineses, however I must say that many of them could care less if the devices they sell are safe or not.
In regards to juices, I do think they should be subject to FDA regulations in the manufacturing and distribution of the same. One company sent me a liter of 100% nicotine in a plastic bottle with absolutely no handling instructions. I had no idea how dangerous it is but something told me to talk with a local vape shop owner before I tried to mix it or God forbid vape it pure. If I had not, I would probably be dead right now because I did not know I could not just stick it in my RDA and vape it. As for the juices that I buy, I try to buy well known brands, but in reality, I have very little confidence in what may be in them and or how cleanly they are manufactured.
Finally, I understand that government regulation will most likely restrict our use of vaping devices and end up driving the cost of vaping to cigarette levels. I dread such a thing as much as I dread a plague outbreak, yet what is the answer? Can we continue to allow the Chinese to export devices in to our country that could possibly cause serious injury to its user and or those who come in contact with the same? As for juices, without FDA regulation, how can we be assured of what we may be inhaling in to our lungs is possibly worse than the cigarettes we have given up?
I meant 100ml/mg, not 10ml/mg, but at least no one was fooled. Fixed it anyway.
