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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.
to handle the fires, so this is just sad. They are better equipped than just about anyone to handle the vaping fires.
Aw well. Back to smoking cock. Roger wilco Captain sir, sucking your knob.
The bigger fish they should be frying should be the "crippling construction defects" affecting their newer ships other than focusing on minor issues like vaping in my opinion.
There is no military draft right now.
That means that 100% of the personnel in the Navy are in the Navy because they
CHOSE to be in the navy.
If you fuckers in the Navy don't like being told what you cannot do, you shouldn't have enlisted.
What a bunch of pussies. If you were being shot at, you'd quit whining about vaping damned quick.
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.
Fuck vapers and smokers. Pull your heads out of your asses and stop poisoning yourselves (and those nearby) with carcinogenic drugs and drug replacements, you fucking toolbags.
No need to hide anymore.
How fucking stupid must you have been to have cast your vote for Trump?
As long as they still allow transsexuals to serve in the Navy, it's OK.
So these Navy personel are qualified to operate ships and submarines, but aren't smart enough to know better than to carry loose lithium-ion batteries in their pockets along with change, keys, etc.
I wish they would ban this in my workplace. It's smoking, lite, isn't it?
The vapers I run across seem to have the attitude of "it ain't tobacco, nobody has proved it hurts anyone, lets see how much of this shit I can put into the air".
None of my friends vape, and I'll never be friends with a vaper.
Then again, I'm 58 and have yet to run into a vaper over 30. Don't trust anyone under 30 someone famous almost said 40 years ago.
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No surprise there. Also, you get the added benefit of not looking like a pussy.
Excellent. Vaping is as retarded as smoking.
Because they aren't Catholic priests
I may be wrong, but I don't think those sexual abuse cases were about being gay. I think they were about being in proximity of vulnerable children and teenagers, most of which were males.
Look at what just came out about that Connecticut boarding school. Decades of abuse but since it was coed, many of the victims were girls.
lucm, indeed.
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Pyongyang, April 14 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army (KPA) issued a statement Friday as regards the extremely dangerous situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula due to the Trump administration's reckless military provocation. The Trump administration of the U.S. began to disclose its brigandish nature timed to coincide with Key Resolve and Foal Eagle nuclear war games now under way in across south Korea, the statement said, and went on: The DPRK policy shaped by the Trump administration is first to put high-intensity sanctions and pressure together with someone, second to constantly keep tactical nuclear weapons deployed in south Korea and third to launch an independent military action aimed at "beheading operation" against the leadership of the DPRK and "preemptive strike". In actuality, the Trump administration, which made a surprise cruise guided missile strike at Syria on April 6, has entered the path of open threat and blackmail against the DPRK, describing it as "a strong warning message" to it. The U.S. State secretary, Defense secretary and other officials concerned with security of the U.S. are openly crying out more often than not for launching an independent military action against the DPRK. Under the prevailing situation where the Trump administration's serious military hysteria has reached a dangerous phase which can no longer be overlooked, the KPA General Staff re-clarifies its principled stand as follows upon authorization: 1. All the brigandish provocative moves of the U.S. in the political, economic and military fields pursuant to its hostile policy toward the DPRK will thoroughly be foiled through the toughest counteraction of the army and people of the DPRK. Our toughest counteraction against the U.S. and its vassal forces will be taken in such a merciless manner as not to allow the aggressors to survive. Under the prevailing grave situation, the U.S. has to come to its senses and make a proper option for the solution of the problem. The army and people of the DPRK will as ever courageously counter those who encroach upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and will always mercilessly foil all the provocative options of the U.S. with Korean-style toughest counteraction. -0-
Says the guy who believes in studies sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry.
Did you take a minute to check the link? This study was done at Virginia Tech.
This work was supported by the Medical Informatics and Systems Division director's fund at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
lucm, indeed.
Buy sub-standard shit, and reap the rewards. Laptops, phones, "hoverboards", e-cigs, whatever. Chinese crap.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
also, beatings will continue until morale improves.
as should ZDR, FAU, and the other fuckers undermining lowtax.
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.
I'm an ex-(ish)smoke who 'vapes.' There are two types of ecigs: the little pencil ones I use to no one's notice AND the 600W vapo-trails that fill a room w/ stink. I can see banning the latter as you billow a volcano of vapor to the annoyance of others; the little ones no one, not even the steward on a 15 hour flight notices. Distinguish people! //end rant.
I think it's time to call it. Vaping industry at large is wholly incompetent.
sailors will go back to cigarettes.... way to reduce the pension fund? After all, dead sailors dont cost anything, but the lung damage will cost a lot in their final few years of life. This is ridiculous, just set a mil spec standard, let the free market meet that demand, the majority of battery fires are due to cheap ass Chinese crap or as other posters said, heavy mods done incorrectly.
maybe they should be used in Afghanistan. Cheaper than dropping that MOAB! :-)
As you did, one can easily state that giving and taking orders is the prime mode of operation in leadership, and in the meantime it is.
However especially in times of crisis you need soft skills, you need to have leadership to build up a working team a unit of individuals that works seamlessly, is mentally stable.
A crisis situation will draw out the real personality of a human and a solid team will stick together and control the extremes.
And part of that is team building encouragement and a certain amount of leasure time - and even if they want to smoke or to vap - its a stress releave mechanism anyway. Smoking/vaping is also a social mechanism. (smokers group together)
Military is team work.
This is why even in the military you need to take account of the human factor, when you ignore it, you will destroy your resources.
It's even sadder if you have parties without some intoxicants, damage control or not.
Ezekiel 23:20
Submarines: 150 men go down; 75 couples come up...
Regardless of your intent, your statement insults both drafted and enlisted.
No they don't, and there's no point in you in being offended on their behalf. Veterans are not fragile children that must be protected from possibly controversial discussions, they're normal people who happened to have been to war. If a veteran comes here and start using his military background to support his accusation of cowardice aimed at other users, he's opening the door to questioning his own courage. This is not disrespectful of military service, don't SJW-ize it.
lucm, indeed.
You're a fucking idiot! Goddamn I'm sick of fucking losers like you who have never done anything of value in life.
After reports of explosives?
The Navy is only banning vaping on shippings and I can see the reasoning for it. While vaping may be better for your health long term the situation on board a ship is a bit different. First of all, you're on a ship. You don't have access to expert medical facilities so while vape devices have thus far only caused 77 days worth of injuries, they've been minor enough that they could be handled by the ship's medbay. There's likely a concern here regarding a more severe injury and the isolation from higher quality medical services where something that shouldn't be life-threatening if you were stateside or on a base suddenly becomes life threatening.
While vaping may be healthier compared to cigarettes you're talking long term chronic health. There's no question that when we're talking about short-term and immediate health that cigarettes are safer than vaping and I can't believe I just typed that phrase.
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
90 couples. There are always people cheating.
Source: was in the navy on a submarine
No, I'm not gay, but the jokes are hilarious