Below is an e-mail I sent to the company that I ordered my first e-cigarette and cartomizers from. Please be watchful for your cartomizer caps for this possible issue (oversight / quality control / safety concern). Share with your newbie friends who may not know what to watch out for when getting cartomizers and caps for the first time...
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wanted to e-mail you concerning a possible MAJOR issue with the cartomizer cartridge caps - felt strongly enough about it that perhaps future customers should be issued instructions (or a warning) as to what not to do.
Began vaping as soon as I got the product as a way to transition from cigarettes. I'm happy to say that I haven't had a regular cigarette in 2 days. HOWEVER, had an experience that is somewhat concerning on a health level that I wanted to share HOPING that this information might help others who are new (or not paying attention) avoid a MAJOR mistake that could be harmful to their health.
Like I said, I pretty much began using the product immediately. In my excitement for the new product, I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the plastic caps. I pretty much charged my batteries, took the caps off my first cartomizer, and began vaping. Then, afterwards, I simply unscrewed the cartomizer and placed the caps back on to preserve the cartomizer so that it wouldn't get anything in them (such as lint from my pocket / etc. when I wasn't using them). I did this over and over again, until the vaporizer was spent. Then, I went to open up the container for my NEXT cartomizer. This time, I paid more attention to the caps when I removed them and noticed that one of the caps --- the one that went in to the atomizer part of the cartomizer --- had a LONG plastic piece that actually was extended INSIDE the atomizer. The other end of the cap didn't have this, however. When I noticed this, I looked at my SPENT/USED cartomizer cartridge... removed the caps that I had been replacing when it wasn't in use... and noticed that this LONG PIECE was missing from the caps.
I checked the other caps on my other NEW cartomizers and noticed that they all too had this same long plastic piece that went into the atomizer. However, like I said before, the caps on my spent atomizer didn't have this. My FEAR and CONCERN is that the spent cartomizer's caps DID INDEED at one time have this long plastic piece. However, it may have been MELTED OFF inside the atomizer unit, when I replaced the caps after using the product, and because I didn't notice this right away, I may have actually been vaping (inhaling) the remnants of the melted plastic components that were in my atomizer part of my cartomizer!!!!
Quite scary indeed, since I have no idea what the chemical composition of these plastic cap components are at all, and I also have no idea how much of this I actually breathed in over a day or so period, as I continued to vape on that cartridge until it was completely spent.
PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE, either find caps that do not have this long plastic piece, or WARN people purchasing these cartomizers that have these caps NOT to reuse them because of the risk of the plastic piece being melted in a recently used atomizer!
Please note, one one the reasons I decided to transition to e-cigs because I didn't want to inhale the 4,000 or so chemicals that are in a regular cigarette... I figured it would be a healthier alternative to SMOKE to inhale vapor (and nicotine and food vlavoring and VG)... After this experience, I'm not so sure. Because this is so NEW, who knows what other unknown risks there may be with e-cigs, due to oversight in manufacturing or quality control to have issues such as this occur.
I hope this post can help someone else not have the same negative experience that I had. Please share this information with those persons at the highest levels of your organization.
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wanted to e-mail you concerning a possible MAJOR issue with the cartomizer cartridge caps - felt strongly enough about it that perhaps future customers should be issued instructions (or a warning) as to what not to do.
Began vaping as soon as I got the product as a way to transition from cigarettes. I'm happy to say that I haven't had a regular cigarette in 2 days. HOWEVER, had an experience that is somewhat concerning on a health level that I wanted to share HOPING that this information might help others who are new (or not paying attention) avoid a MAJOR mistake that could be harmful to their health.
Like I said, I pretty much began using the product immediately. In my excitement for the new product, I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the plastic caps. I pretty much charged my batteries, took the caps off my first cartomizer, and began vaping. Then, afterwards, I simply unscrewed the cartomizer and placed the caps back on to preserve the cartomizer so that it wouldn't get anything in them (such as lint from my pocket / etc. when I wasn't using them). I did this over and over again, until the vaporizer was spent. Then, I went to open up the container for my NEXT cartomizer. This time, I paid more attention to the caps when I removed them and noticed that one of the caps --- the one that went in to the atomizer part of the cartomizer --- had a LONG plastic piece that actually was extended INSIDE the atomizer. The other end of the cap didn't have this, however. When I noticed this, I looked at my SPENT/USED cartomizer cartridge... removed the caps that I had been replacing when it wasn't in use... and noticed that this LONG PIECE was missing from the caps.
I checked the other caps on my other NEW cartomizers and noticed that they all too had this same long plastic piece that went into the atomizer. However, like I said before, the caps on my spent atomizer didn't have this. My FEAR and CONCERN is that the spent cartomizer's caps DID INDEED at one time have this long plastic piece. However, it may have been MELTED OFF inside the atomizer unit, when I replaced the caps after using the product, and because I didn't notice this right away, I may have actually been vaping (inhaling) the remnants of the melted plastic components that were in my atomizer part of my cartomizer!!!!
Quite scary indeed, since I have no idea what the chemical composition of these plastic cap components are at all, and I also have no idea how much of this I actually breathed in over a day or so period, as I continued to vape on that cartridge until it was completely spent.
PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE, either find caps that do not have this long plastic piece, or WARN people purchasing these cartomizers that have these caps NOT to reuse them because of the risk of the plastic piece being melted in a recently used atomizer!
Please note, one one the reasons I decided to transition to e-cigs because I didn't want to inhale the 4,000 or so chemicals that are in a regular cigarette... I figured it would be a healthier alternative to SMOKE to inhale vapor (and nicotine and food vlavoring and VG)... After this experience, I'm not so sure. Because this is so NEW, who knows what other unknown risks there may be with e-cigs, due to oversight in manufacturing or quality control to have issues such as this occur.
I hope this post can help someone else not have the same negative experience that I had. Please share this information with those persons at the highest levels of your organization.
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