Posted on 03/24/2014 12:12:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It can be bought on the Internet in flavors like chocolate and bubble gum—and just a teaspoon could kill a child: The New York Times takes a look at liquid nicotine, the e-liquid used in e-cigarettes, which it describes as a "powerful neurotoxin ... far more dangerous than tobacco." And with good reason: Reports of accidental liquid nicotine poisonings rose 300% from 2012 to 1,351 cases last year, with 2014's figure expected to be double that.
The victims, many children under the age of four, can experience vomiting and seizures after being exposed to even a modest amount orally or through the skin.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune notes that the bottles often convey their flavors with potentially enticing photos of fruits or chocolate, which could attract youngsters; teens, on the flip side, may be combining it with energy drinks to get high, per Fox News Insider.
"It's not a matter of if a child will be seriously poisoned or killed. It's a matter of when," says a director with California's Poison Control System.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Forget the kids! I don’t want to get anywhere near it as an ADULT ... LOL ...
Utterly Non Toxic Pure water can kill..if one drinks too much of it
lets begin by banning everything....
fluis = fluid
OR, you could just leave us alone. How about that?
simply seeing the poor dumb schmucks miserable hysterical visage on the internet was a bit much.,...
personal contact No thank.....you Id be tempted to hurt his feelings
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis, English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963).
sorry I posted a response to what I thought was a comment about the “trans gender teacher” In another thread
s’been a tough monday
OK. That's BS. When I was a toddler I gravitated to cigarette butts and matches like a magnent. It was so bad that my mother took me to the doctor. He prescribed force-feeding me burned toast to cure my craving.
Yes. It worked. Until I turned 15 and began smoking. But, if what you state were true, I'd have been dead many times over. I cleaned out every ashtray and dove for butts on the ground, swallowing them like pills, from the ages 18-30 months old. ANd I mean that I was sneaking butts like my life depended on it. Creeping out of bed and eating up to 30 butts out of the ashtray before my mom caught me.
So take your 'studies' with a grain of salt. I'm living proof the this is BS.
Exactly, and how so any of them have lasted as long a they have on a conservative, small government forum as this just amazes me.
The oldest addiction in the world.
Yes, and no need t stretch the proper definition of the word "addiction" in this case, as they have in the case f folks who enjoy tobacco products.
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And then we had an epidemic of mouth cancer.
You are lying. There has never been a recorded 'epidemic of mouth cancer' in any school. Next, snuff (snorted) and dip are completely different things. The circle that you saw was dip and that would lead to mouth cancer... in 20 or 30 or 40 years. Not in highschool or even directly after.
Right. I was trying to make the point that tobacco itself can be a toxic plant, like many solanacea.
I don’t think the butts killing kids is a real fact, but it comes up all the time.
That’s an interesting case of pica. For me, the bitter taste and awful smell would mean it’s not going near my mouth!
The toxic butt thing is not true, I brought it up just to state that tobacco itself can be a toxic plant.
“It always amazes her that the patients can’t afford medicine for their kids, but they can always afford a pack of smokes.”
My mom was dirt poor raising a kid on her own. She’d spend the 70 cents a pack to suppress her appetite to go without food so that I could eat. The price rose, but she found that the cigs were still cheaper than food. She’s my hero and I really need you to think twice before you say anything about my mom.
You also refuse to see that cigarettes help with depression and a host of other mental health issues. It’s got fewer side effects than Prozac in the long run. Perhaps there’s a reason poor people smoke and you should have some compassion.
DannyTN said nothing about your mom so stop the drama.
The question remains why poor people continue to bear the monetary burden of smoking when money is tight and children are hungry or need medicine.
We never did figure out what I needed, but I never stopped craving matches. I’m 43 and I still salivate when I see a burned match. The doctor wasn’t stunned, though. He was confident that the burned toast would work and it did help, though not cure, my cravings.
In a Constitutional Republic with a Free Market economic system, where everyone was sick of “smokies”, a “smoke free” airline would have been a big hit. Smoke free restaurants and bars would have been everywhere and only a few “smokies” restaurants and bars would have survived. Instead a bunch of selfish whiny busy bodies couldn’t handle the results of a free market and used the power of government to get their way. In any sane time where government was limited to their respective constitutions this would never have been allowed, and anyone that would argue that supra-constitutional powers are ok if they foster their own agenda is neither a conservative or a constitutionalist.
http://www.airflights.to/Airlines/Europe/Germany/Smintair/Smintair.php5
Smintair is a proposed new airline for nicotine addicts, (it’s full name is Smokers International Airways)
I don’t think they made it...Check out the founders photo at the bottom of the link. LOL
My point is that they are getting something positive out of it that is worth the cost. Relief from mental illness, relief from hunger, reduction of pain... As I said, maybe you should have some compassion for poor people and get off your high horse.
It was probably made illegal.
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