UK e-cigs get Liquid Smoking competition

[TropicalBob]

http://blogs.abcnews.com:80/worldview/2008/10/liquid-smoking.html

E-cigs still rule, based on hand-to-mouth habit replication. But this is interesting and might even be legal in the States.

 

[e-pipeman]

Interesting indeed. But we come up against the old problem - "Is this harmful or not?" I take the (wholly personal and not in any way a recommendation) view that trying new things is an important part of experiencing what it means to be human today. This can (and should) include new thoughts (if there is anything new under our sun). Ezra Pound had it right when he exhorted us to "Make it new!" Sadly he was IMHO wrong in other ways, but then - who isn't?

 

[Nazareth]

Does this description raise red flags over product safety? “Not really if they are just herbal extracts, Amanda Sanford of the U.K.’s Action on Smoking and Health told ABC News, adding, however, that it, like anything, “can be dangerous is not used properly.”

Many people have died from "Liquid herbal extracts"- extracts from plants are medicines- not harmless 'all natural' products. The body is an amazingly complex organism that depends on everything functioning according to genetic blueprints, and plant extracts alter the inner workings in ways we don't fully understand sometimes, and may (and infact has) prove to be dangerous for some folks. Caution is needed. (Not stating this product is dangerous, but we need I think to more fully investigate what these african herbals do to our biological systems

 

[dc2k08]

sounds like some good old-timey root beer to me. i wonder whether it does actually take the edge of nicotine cravings or is it just a marketing ploy+placebo. where are you WHO??

here's the mail's version of events

i see they went for the marlboro look but held back on the anti-semite and kkk references

 

[e-pipeman]

Or is that just masquerading as a tin of "Red Stripe"?

 

[Dale]

Sounds fairly bogus to me... an e-cig satisfies both the hand-to-mouth habit and my nicotine receptors... this, while amusing, is IMHO just another "energy drink" along the lines of Red Bull, etc. It offers a different kind of "energy," granted, but it's just a clever marketing ploy, methinks.

 

[jpc815]

http://blogs.abcnews.com:80/worldview/2008/10/liquid-smoking.html

E-cigs still rule, based on hand-to-mouth habit replication. But this is interesting and might even be legal in the States.

AND did you follow the links from that page to this story:
Melamine Scare Hits U.K. Sex Toys

Is NOTHING safe anymore???

 

[TropicalBob]

Now that's a conspiracy by the do-gooders ...