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Man Killed After E-Cig Charging Snafu
Newser ^ | August 9, 2014 | John Johnson

Posted on 08/09/2014 10:49:50 AM PDT by Enterprise

A UK man was killed after his device misfired and ignited his oxygen equipment, reports the BBC. Fire officials say David Thomson, 62, was charging his e-cig in his bedroom when it "exploded, caught fire, and ignited the oxygen tube of an oxygen concentrator, which may have been in use by the occupier."

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KEYWORDS: fire; oxygen; smoke
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To: rockinqsranch
You were one of the very few lucky one's not addicted.

I got all kinds of heebeejeebees for weeks. Even dreamed i was smoking for several years after.

It was the money thing that gave me the determination. I was sick of paying chemical extortion money to RJR.

21 posted on 08/09/2014 11:38:03 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: rockinqsranch

Just think of all that money spent on smoking, could have been used to buy good beer...a shame I tell ya. :-)


22 posted on 08/09/2014 11:40:07 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (waiting for my Magic 8 ball to give me an answer)
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To: Gen.Blather

America will look like a cross between Blade Runner and Brazil and being ruled by the Chinese/whites/Hispanics in about the same proportion


23 posted on 08/09/2014 11:45:52 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: rockinqsranch

Congratulations. I quit smoking 19 years ago right after I met my wife when she said I could smoke in her car. I didn’t want her to know me as a smoker. I just stopped.


24 posted on 08/09/2014 11:46:23 AM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: Gen.Blather
I suspect America will be so transformed racially and culturally that if I jumped ahead just 50 years right now I’d probably not be able to talk to most of the people I’d meet.

I could see that not only you would not be able to talk to them but large groups could not even talk to each other.

You could see cults of technology and cults of the pristine human who refuse to be augmented by technology. You will have the poor who can't afford it as well. I suspect they will become so different from each other that they will not even regard each other as "true" human beings anymore.

25 posted on 08/09/2014 11:51:05 AM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Anti smokers don’t really love longer, it just seems that way to everyone around them.


26 posted on 08/09/2014 11:55:33 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Enterprise

Lefties are after e-cigs now because the vapor
“looks like” smoke.-


27 posted on 08/09/2014 11:55:42 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Enterprise
Amateur!

28 posted on 08/09/2014 11:57:01 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Conservative4Ever

LOL I’m allergic to something in beer. Causes me terrible stomach pains, so I haven’t had a beer since 1976. Actually quit all liquor, or anything with alcohol in it back in 1997. Don’t need that stuff to enjoy life. Not at all.


29 posted on 08/09/2014 11:59:49 AM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Lurker
It's the stench of the assumed moral superiority that they reek of.

/johnny

30 posted on 08/09/2014 12:00:57 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: rockinqsranch

You don’t drink or smoke...so what are your vices? How much do you weigh?


31 posted on 08/09/2014 12:02:30 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: captain_dave
Smoking kills

Or in this case vaping.

32 posted on 08/09/2014 12:03:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: JRandomFreeper

You are quite correct. I’d rather smell someone else’s cigarette smoke than listen the their insufferable preening.


33 posted on 08/09/2014 12:04:01 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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FReepers! Let's go!
Every donation counts!




FReepathon day 39.

Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.

34 posted on 08/09/2014 12:09:46 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Enterprise

It occurs to me that the only reason this event is news is because they can implicate e-cigs as the cause. It could well have been a cell phone charger and we wouldn’t be talking about this right now. I would venture also that there are other oxygen-related incidents that we never hear about.

Oxygen is extremely flammable. That big tank on the space shuttle had a lot of oxygen in it.


35 posted on 08/09/2014 12:27:31 PM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: Enterprise

Hold muh oxygen tank, and watch this....


36 posted on 08/09/2014 12:42:19 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Gen.Blather

I fear your vision is correct. And the sad part is that there are progressives who are working tirelessly to create the world you describe.


37 posted on 08/09/2014 12:45:33 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: lonestar

6’3” 195 lbs. LOL. Nope, NOT overweight.

Vice!? I guess hangin’ at FR would be my major vice. Love this site.


38 posted on 08/09/2014 1:20:32 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: rockinqsranch

You are the only person who I have heard say they were allergic to beer. I am too, it closes my throat up. Scariest feeling I have ever had. Other alcoholic beverages give me a headache, an immediate headache but beer is the worst.

Needless to say, I do not drink!


39 posted on 08/09/2014 1:27:35 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Enterprise

Second-hand fire.


40 posted on 08/09/2014 1:30:15 PM PDT by 867V309 (Don't tread on me, bro)
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