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Selling a Poison by the Barrel: Liquid Nicotine for E-Cigarettes
“E-liquids” used to refill e-cigarettes are potent, unregulated neurotoxins. Evidence of the potential dangers is already emerging.
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Wow. That's a pretty fucking arrogant article. Utterly one-sided.
I felt like sharing it because of how ridiculous the thing sounded. Im a fellow ecig user, and 95% of the article I found to be angry drivel by an extremely ignorant writer.
Hope it didn't sound like I was bashing you ;)
I was just amazed at the over-the-top "OMG CHILDREN ARE DRINKING IT AND DYING BY THE BUSLOADS" vitriol. Well, children are known to drink all sorts of crazy shit when they are lacking good parental supervision. Kids have been chugging bleach, bug spray, and antifreeze almost the second after they started selling those products in stores.
I hate to hear about any death, but let's not neglect that 54% of all poison control calls were for prescription medications. But, nobody's calling for Viagra or Tylenol be locked up any more than it already is.
My thoughts exactly, glad we are on the same page haha.
Yeah....this is a hit job. Not trying to promote cigarettes but I'd like to see some impartiality from authors. This sounds like an angry, ill-informed, rant. I expected better of the NYT.
Wow......... I better pour out all my liquid now because I am evidently to stupid to keep it out of the hands of my kids.
Think of the kids. THINK OF THE KIDS!
This sounds like some scare tactic created by the anti e-cigarette crowd/companies. Amazing what money can buy these days.
That or the tobacco farmers association...
Tobacco farmers are loving this new tech. They have to use tobacco to make the liquid nicotine. Most of the bad press has been linked back the the pharmaceutical companies. They are losing a ton of money due to people switching over and not using all the stop smoking aides. Several of the "Grassroot" movements have been directly funded by big pharma.
Same goes for prescription medicine. Yet I don't hear people whining over that.