[DBrow]

I read somewhere that a kid eating a few butts could die. Probably someone that small eating an entire cigarette may be in toxic trouble. So ecig juice is as toxic as, say, any household pesticide or mouse killer, what a surprize.

Don’t worry, once they are taxed and regulated the negative articles will stop.

[jjsheridan5]

I read somewhere that a kid eating a few butts could die. Probably someone that small eating an entire cigarette may be in toxic trouble. So ecig juice is as toxic as, say, any household pesticide or mouse killer, what a surprize.

You do realize that cigarette butts contain thousands of chemicals, many of which are the result of combustion. To conclude from that (assuming it isn't just an old wive's tale) that ecig juice is as toxic as household pesticide or mouse killer, is a leap of Carl Lewis proportions. Look at the Meyer study from Ganz. Conventional wisdom of nicotine toxicity levels is derived from a never challenged 100 year old wild-a**-guess, and is off by at least a factor of 10.

[Marie]

I read somewhere that a kid eating a few butts could die

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.