france looks to ban e-cigs in public places

[John Galt]

[Spider]

If there's no smoke involved, it really shouldn't even be called smoking.

[Darkhorse]

I won't be surprised when this kind of stuff starts happening in NYC and California.

[Medius]

Just more proof that, for many, it is about controlling people's personal choices more than any kind of actual concern.

Banning clove cigarettes in the US made no actual sense, but they did it anyway.

[John Galt]

[exploited]

Considering that e-cigarettes helped my wife quit after she smoked for a year, this is a very special brand of retardation.

[Spider]

I would like to know the exact chemical makeup of the cartridges. Gotta wonder what chemicals are going in there besides nicotine. And nicotine really is poison.We can't pretend its benign...but I'm not convinced at these dosages its all that much worse than the various other toxic substances we enjoy. Its just kinda creepy considering that nicotine used to be widely used as insecticide.

Interesting the sorts of laws that are starting to pop up. Since its not a tobacco product, the tobacco laws don't apply, and states have been trying to individually come up with their own rules...even to simply make it illegal for kids to purchase them. I think in my state any 10 year old with a 20 dollar bill and the urge to piss off his parents can walk into a store and buy them.

Its hilarious, watching them scramble around. They can't prove its in any way as harmful as smoking, or even as harmful as a greasy cheeseburger...but they trip all over themselves trying to find some way to ban it...even though they can't find a way to justify it.

[John Galt]

the vapor is propylene glycol (used to keep food moist, as well as non-toxic anti-freeze), nicotine, glycerine (also to keep moist) and water. the ingredients include the carcinogen nitrosamine, but has not been detected in the vapor (what goes in your body) as far as i've found, and is at a level 15K times less than a cigarette.
YOLO

[spacemonkey]

Its really funny with all the parinoia about smoking, alcohol is almost being premoted.And that crap (alcohol) will put you in the grave a helluva lot faster then smoke.

[Spider]

Alcohol is perfectly fine in moderation. Healthy, even.

Smoke just isn't. There is zero upside to it. Its just bad in the purest sense of the word.