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MystikMushroom
I don't know. I don't care for e-cigs. They don't taste right and they burn my throat. They also use glycol as the liquid to suspend the nicotine in.
I used to spray glycol on sidewalks to de-ice them.
Now, the MSDS sheet for the glycol said it was pretty much harmless, but if I'm spraying it to melt ice and it has an MSDS...I'm not so sure I want to be inhaling it. Who knows what long-term exposure to glycol will cause iin the future...
Who knows, maybe it's a different form of glycol. The only time I use an e-cig is in rental cars and long road trips.
Propylene glycol is considered generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
ManOfHart
Hmm, a puff of a highly addictive stimulant being exhaled into the atmosphere where other people could breath in such air. I think they got a little point there.
But where I draw the line, is when they start strip searching people for nicotine-patch trans-dermal system inspection.
When we can not have our patches then that is where it is going to get real.
stumason
reply to post by amazing
By demonising (or outright banning) e-cigs, they'll only end up forcing people back to Tobacco - which is probably what they want as an estimated 15% of the UK smoking population have switched from tobacco to e-cigs, at great loss to the exchequer (Smoking brings in around £10 Billion to the Treasury every year in the UK in taxation). THe wierd dichotomy is that the EU is also bringing in harsher laws on Tobacco products as well, so their attacking them from both sides..
What do they want? Is it for us to give up and be healthy, because if it is banning a totally harmless replacement is counter-productive, but then if people go back to Tobacco, they might get their tax revenue but healthcare costs skyrocket.
stumason
reply to post by amazing
Pushing them out of buildings is one thing - I am not overly bothered by that because as a smoker it is part of my routine and a social event anyway, going for a smoke - but the EU are looking at an outright ban on them, which is scarier.
pointr97
ManOfHart
Hmm, a puff of a highly addictive stimulant being exhaled into the atmosphere where other people could breath in such air. I think they got a little point there.
But where I draw the line, is when they start strip searching people for nicotine-patch trans-dermal system inspection.
When we can not have our patches then that is where it is going to get real.
nicotine, no more addictive than caffeine or as dangerous. The media and corporate powers want you to think it is, but the danger is all the additive crap they put in it.
Namely, because this product has a devastating impact on big tobaccos profit margins.....same thing they did to pot.edit on 23-12-2013 by pointr97 because: (no reason given)
Metallicus
reply to post by catfishjoe
Why should I have to inhale anyone else's air pollution even if it is just 'vapor'?
I like this law.
ManOfHart
Hmm, a puff of a highly addictive stimulant being exhaled into the atmosphere where other people could breath in such air. I think they got a little point there.
But where I draw the line, is when they start strip searching people for nicotine-patch trans-dermal system inspection.
When we can not have our patches then that is where it is going to get real.