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US Navy Bans Vaping On Ships (go.com)
The U.S. Navy announced today that it will no longer allow sailors to use electronic cigarettes on ships, following several reports of explosives and injuries. ABC News reports: Naval commanders said in a statement Friday that the temporary electronic cigarette policy aims to protect sailors and the fleet. It starts next month. Officials cited overheated batteries in vaping equipment as the problem. Explosions have led to fires, first-degree burns and facial disfigurement. During a recent eight-month stretch, 12 incidents put sailors out of work for a combined 77 days. Injuries also restricted some to light duty for a total of five months.
Why not, I dunno, sell government approved vape pens in the commissary? From what I've read, most of the incidents with vaping are from people trying to "soup up" their vape machines. This amounts to banning Honda Civics on base because a few ill informed morons cause them to ignite by modifying them in ways they don't really understand.
I wish they would ban this in my workplace. It's smoking, lite, isn't it?
Cancer is a bigger health problem than hemorrhoids. Does that mean you want big pharma to stop working on hemorrhoids cream and focus all their energy on cancer?
Maybe there's room for common sense and picking low-hanging fruit is part of it.
lucm, indeed.
The primary antisocial aspects of smoking have nothing to do with health effects and are still very present in vaping.
The primary antisocial aspect of smoking is the risk of cancer from second hand smoke. While the risk is very small, it is really not acceptable to raise some other person's cancer risk simply to feed one's addiction. It's not even for convenience! Just stupidity. The secondary antisocial aspect is the odor that others have to put up with. While I know intellectually that they have all kinds of scented bullshit for people to vape, I have never actually smelled any of it, and I see people vaping all the time. So unless you have some evidence that second-hand vaping is measurably carcinogenic, no, the primary antisocial aspects of smoking are not "very" present in vaping.
ObDisclaimer: I do not vape nicotine juice. I have never vaped in public.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You have fallen for lies and propoganda
Says the guy who provides a link to an e-cigarette lobbyist website
lucm, indeed.
I'm frankly very surprised by the extreme lack of any understanding of what vaping is, how electronic cigarettes work, in even the most general sense, or what's in e liquid or the vapor. There has been basically no correct information stated anywhere in this whole comment section, except that the actual cause of these injuries is cheap, low quality, Chinese batteries.
Vaping is a harm reduction activity, for people who have been unsuccessful trying to quit smoking. If you can't get off nicotine, better to get it from vaping than smoking. The Royal College of Physicians in the U.K. estimates vaping is approximately 95% less harmful than cigarettes. You can think what you want, but if you think it's just as bad as cigarettes, you are an idiot. It's also not water vapor being exhaled. I'm not sure where that ever came from, but in it's attempt to make vaping sound safe, it instead makes anyone who repeats it sound stupid. There's no reason for most people to care about vaping unless they know someone who does it, but just know, it's keeping someone from smoking, and that should be reason enough to be ok with at, as long as they don't blow it right in your face.
I agree that the young crowd who only want to blow huge clouds are ruining it for everyone else, but if it's keeping them off combustible cigarettes, it's still ok with me.