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US Bans Electronic Cigarettes From Checked Baggage Over Fire Risks (foxnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this month, the FDA announced it would regulate electronic cigarettes and other new tobacco products. Now, the U.S. Transportation Department announced it is permanently banning passengers and crew members from carrying electronic cigarettes in checked baggage or charging the devices onboard aircraft. They have cited a number of recent incidents that show the devices can catch fire during flight. Passengers can still carry e-cigarettes in their carry-on baggage or on their person, they just can't use the devices on flights. "Fire hazards in flight are particularly dangerous," Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement. "Banning e-cigarettes from checked bags is a prudent and important safety measure." The new rule covers e-cigarettes, e-cigars, e-pipes, and battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices in general. It does not prohibit passengers from transporting other battery-powered devices for personal use like laptop computers or cellphones.
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Have gnu, will travel.
Exploding vaporizer rips hole in man's tongue
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terminals/parking lots/shuttles/etc....
People are capable of Spontaneous Human Combustion without a source of fire too. I guess we should ban them too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Those also are flammable and cause explosions. Just glad cell phones don't explode or catch fire....o snap.
Okay, so thing that can explode/cause a fire is banned from checked baggage, yet the same thing that can explode/cause a fire is allowed in carry-on luggage?!? Seriously, what the fuck? Oh, well, we can't have fires in the cargo space, but inside the cabin? Perfectly fine. Thanks USA, for the usual amount of sense in protecting your citizens.
Better vapetards than actual smokers. As someone with pretty bad asthma, I want to hug every single person that has the decency to get their nic-fix without making me get my albuterol fix.
Haha mouth fedora is awesome. I prefer douche flute myself.
Well done.
You are welcome on my lawn.
What about a south Korean battery?
Every time I go through the airport in a secured zone, I see shelves stacked with wine, whiskey, beer, vodka, champagne. Every bottle, when broken, is a potential ceramic knife. By the way, a very sharp knife.
Two quarters of 100 proof spirit is very flammable. Whiskey in the bottle is just an expensive Molotov cocktail - lite.
Apparently don't realize that these rechargable batteries aren't any different from any other rechargable batteries. Batteries don't spontaneously combust, user error with chargers is the issue. So dumb.
How am I gonna carry my marijuana? No vape now. Flower is too obvious. Edibles are unpredictable.
http://mystabis.com/
Oh come off it, i just recently got off a flight from LA to SYD where another passenger from the same flight had his bag catch fire on the train from the airport. Turns out he had power drills and their batteries in there. How are you going to stop an e-cigarette when people are taking power drills and batteries aboard in checked baggage?
Next we will be leaving laptops, tablets, watches and phones at home too.....
Just an FYI, Philadelphia was enforcing this when i flew out of there a few weeks ago to come home. They asked me specifically about those items prior to letting me check my bags in. Nashville (my hometown) had not started this procedure yet.
The story talks about an ecig exploding during *USE*, not while it was unattended... or in luggage on a plane.
Using it on a plane is a non-issue, since I can't remember the last time I was on a plane that allowed smoking at all during the flight.
And in matters of storage, why are batteries for ecigs more dangerous than any other kind of battery?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Those perform automatic face lifting and eye lid modification surgeries.
BOHICA - Only irritated rump qualifly for free tsa sausage sandwiches.
I could work on Jets, Launch them, Fix them, Trouble shoot them, Love, Hate, Bleed, Cry, Build them, Modify them and so on, oh hell
You could say,
"I even know how to safely piss on them."
Which is what YOU should do until the jack boots (and you know exactly what I speak) goes away again.
- in my opinion
How about the baggage compartment is actually sealed and inert during the flight.
Maybe that's part of it. For some I could see it. But in my opinion it is because you asshats won't stop trying to ban nicotine. You've been downright bastards against smokers since I was about 18. Problem is, like any other chemical, people who want to consume it will do so if they damned well please. These items have successfully circumvented all of the annoying policies you busybodies have put in place and it is just annoying the dogshit outta you! My old ass smiles ear to ear every time I hear someone bitching about it. That's why we get all these calls for "safety" and "the kids". You church ladies already told us a million times to stop, but we already told you a million times to fuck off. It's a never ending battle. Now I am not a vaper. I still get my nicotine like a man- straight from the goddamned plant with fire or my teeth. But I have sat by all these years and watched you guys like a hawk. You're pissed because these damned yungguns are BREAKING THE RULES! AND GOD'S RULES ON TOP OF THAT!!! FIRE AND BRIMSTONE! Why do you think they are very careful and deliberate to correct you that it is vaping? Because vaping isn't against the rules but smoking and probably chewing is. They aren't smoking in their cubicle. They are vaping- a perfectly legal process. Now you and I both know that's a difference with no distinction because the end result is the same. Gotta catch a buzz. And if that buzz doesn't come from the sunday sermon from the preacherman? Well we'll just make those people walk the straight and narrow because saving souls gets us a bigger plot of cloud in heaven or some shit. I didn't realize there was a score being kept, but the bible thumpers around here are quick to remind me. So let me say this for the one millionth and one time, FUCK OFF!!!!
So you're in agreement with him then? Because what he said was that if you buy a quality controlled and non-cheaply manufactured device, its built in ground fault interruption circuitry will shut it down to prevent an explosion. So just like that power strip, it is going to be unlikely to kill or injure anyone. I think you're agreeing, but then again, you could be pointing out that "error" as a means to tear down his argument. I guess it depends on which side of the argument you're on.
Any announcement that includes the words "bans" and "electronic cigarette" are music to my ears. The less other words it contains, the better. You can take the nicotine out of the smoke, but you can't take the dipshit out of the smoker.
In my country, vaping is regarded as smoking, and is not allowed on planes, trains, buses or inside any other public space. It's still second hand smoke containing nicotine. Isn't it so in the US?
I've dissasssmbled around 10 different brands and examined the electronics just for fun. I've designed smart battery systems for actual products in the field and was curious what types of protection were used. Tl:dr they shaved about half a dollar off each one by providing almost no safety at all.
Decent single battery systems have over voltage, under voltage, current limiting during charge and discharge, and temperature sensing with bonus points for more advanced features like fuel gaging so that you have an accurate idea of the power left. The models I looked at had everything from none at all (serious fire/venting risk even with the matched charger) to at most a leaky over and under voltage protection. The kind where if you left it on the wrong charger it would likely be a fire/venting risk.
There really needs to be a concrete law with actual fines and punishments about including some basic safety whenever you release a product into the wild with lithium batteries. Too often people remove the safety features to save a few cents because they tested two for 5 minutes and were fine, not realizing that 1M in the field would mean a fire a day.
that e-cig batteries are more likely to catch fire than any other rechargeable electronic device ?
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
The greatest threat from vaping is the loss of all those lovely, lovely sin-tax revenues from tobacco.
You didn't really think that politicians in (say) Colorado suddenly give a shit about their stoner constituents?
Or that alphabet agencies are really concerned that you'll swallow the battery from your e-cig?
They just see a big, big pot of kick-backs, slush money and political influence shrinking as tobacco junkies move on to other,
less taxable, things.
This is just more progress from the pro-cancer group.
Big pharma/big tobacco/prepaid politicians who loved the taxes/and a drooling mob of people who want to hate someone.
Together they wage their war on the most effective smoking cessation device man has ever come up with. One that works like a magic wand and gets people off cigs immediately.
It is not like the vapors from vapes are not the same stuff that has been used in theater and stage for decades. Well tested because we love our actors and care about their health.,
Nicotine is not a carcinogen no matter how much money has gone into trying to prove it is one.
So throw some FUD out there and stupid people will form a mob and demand laws for you to kill 500,000 people in the US and 10 million world wide each year.
Murdering droves of people for this quarter's profits. At least Pfizer will not supply execution drugs, that will save what 10 people a year?
Best way to stop eCig legislation
walk into congress with team of armed men
seal yourselves in
force congress to sit and smoke a carton of cigarettes each
force each one to eat cig if they don't smoke it
treat them like law enforcement treat black people
Give them all stockholm syndrome
afraid to pass more legislation
violence works
is answer
I think you mean flower, the seed-bearing part of the plant.
Freedom to fear. Freedom from thought. Freedom to kill.
I guess the War on Terror really is about freedom!
US Bans Electronic Cigarettes
They're not electronic. They're electric.
The word "electronic" pertains to signals and data.
The word "electric" pertains to power.
The cigarettes do not use electricity for handling signals and data. They use electricity for power only. Hence, they are "electric cigarettes".
Wow. You druggies are an angry bunch.
I suggest you all just move to that desert in India that will soon be abandoned and burn to your heart's content.