This picture of fire extinguishers and e-cigs headed the "In the News March 7th" post of the always interesting, ongoing "Nothing About Us Without Us" topic.
The picture got me thinking...
While no one wants anyone to be injured or burned by a battery incident, I wonder if a
comparison thought about regular cigarette house fires ever crosses the minds of scare-mongering "E-cig Explodes" journalists? Smoking related house fires that cause actual
deaths (including deaths of non-smoking members of the family) and truly critical burn injuries.
Or ever fleetingly crosses the minds of FDA tobacco regulators, Congressional legislators, or state and local lawmakers, who seize upon the tiniest imagined risks, and the most miniscule percentages of those unlikely risks ... in twisted attempts to justify their unreasonable animosity toward electronic cigarettes?
While regulators and junk-producing "scientists" are working around the clock to dissuade smokers from switching from
burning cigarettes to vaping, do any of them
ever have a "harm reduction" thought -- even just a passing thought -- about the number of people killed/injured every year in house fires caused by lit cigarettes?
On page 2 of:
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v13i6.pdf
"While smoking-related fires only accounted for 2 percent
of all residential building fires, they were one of the leading
causes of fire deaths, accounting for 14 percent of fire
deaths in residential buildings. The fatality rate per 1,000
fires was more than 7 times greater in smoking-related fires
than in nonsmoking-related residential building fires. The
injury rate per 1,000 fires was more than 3 times greater in
smoking-related fires than in nonsmoking-related residential
building fires. In addition, 13 percent of all smoking related
fires in residential buildings occurred in bedrooms
when smoking materials ignited mattresses and bedding."
Among e-cig users there have been a few injuries/burns from battery and user issues, but those burns and injuries
don't even begin to compare with being
burned to death in a house fire caused by a lit cigarette.