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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.
Cheap batteries explode when charged improperly, news at 11.
No excuse for stupidity.
If the TSA could screen for stupidity, then there wouldn't be a TSA in the first place.
Unfortunately for the rest of us there is no test to keep stupid people from flying.
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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.
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.....
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.
Ever heard of the Helderberg? Cargo fires grow unnoticed until they consume the plane. Cabin fires are quickly spotted.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
You're an idiot. I use my vape because it's what got me to quit smoking. I've been cigarette free for two years now thanks to it.
The puritans that have given rise to the idiocies like Prohibition and the war on drugs are having nightmares about vaping. Without the cancer causing agents, they have lost their second and third and so on arguments that have allowed them to demonize smokers.
Don't worry though, that won't stop them from making shit up.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.