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 ...
“IIRC, Liquid nicotine was once an ingredient in insecticide”. Nicotine sulfate was used.”
Most people dont realize that even small changes in chemical structure can have a major impact on toxicity, or that the concentration makes the poison.
I get a kick out of commercials talking about blood thinners containing Warfarin which is commonly referred to as RAT Poison.
Socialists with guns?
You are either too young to remember when people were sane and reasonable, or you are just being intransigent because the facts don’t support your position.
It was funny when the bosses released their new rule concerning e-cig use in the buildings.
One of them asked me what I was going to do.
I replied simply, “Oh, I’m just going to go back to smoking regular cigarettes and get sick all the time, call in sick a lot, etc...”
Freaking tobaccophobes.
More like lied about it. There was a time when enough people smoked that it just wasn’t an issue, it wasn’t rude to smoke in public because most everybody else was too (we smoked in hospitals back in the day). Then people started quitting in droves, then the quitters started griping. And they maybe had a point, society was changing and the behavior needed to match, it wasn’t really rude though, most public places still allowed smoking. Unfortunately now the non-smokers have turned into a bunch of psychotic whining ninnies, forced it so businesses CAN’T allow smoking, heck in AZ you can’t even smoke near a door you don’t own (20’ away from doors is the designated smoking area, sure hope you’ve got a big back yard because the area in it less than 20’ from your neighbors doors is a legally defined no smoking area). Really the rudeness pretty solidly comes from the non-smokers, they demanded the world not allow smoking, in a POLITE society we let property owners make their own decisions, but non-smokers didn’t like the decisions being made, so we are no longer legally allowed to be polite.
So is most everything you keep under your kitchen sink.
I have at least a hundred substances, all typical household items, that fit that description. One thing I don't have in my house is a child. If I did I could keep it safe.
from his logic then all/products ought to be banned, b/c it’s not a question of if but when. cars, bikes, ropes, bathtubs, buckets, pools, pillows, dryers, refrigerators, etc etc etc.
“They release vapor into the air so they should be banned from public places just like Tobacco.”
Is the vapor known to be dangerous? You release vapor into the air when you breathe on a cold day, but I don’t see anyone banning you from public places.
Agreed. What was rude was not to offer a cigarette to the other person before you lit up.
I worked at a TV store where we had an ashtray on every few TVs.
Facts are not going to help you at all in this discussion.
hehehe!!!!
Our parenting class put on by Baptist Hospital in Nashville, brought in a pharmacist to drive the point home.
He'd put a pepsi can on the pedestal, and then he put a can of stump remover with the same exact colors right beside it.
Then he'd tell a real story of a parent rushing into his pharmacy with a poisoned child asking him to give the child something. And he'd have to make a decision about whether to wait for a doctor's order or put his license on the line.
And he did the same thing with product after product after product. And you could hear the anquish in his voice with each story. It worked, we got the dangerous stuff out of reach.
Most of the addicts here don’t care about kids.
We wouldn’t want anybody smoking in public at the gay pride parade.
That’s just nasty. LOL
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