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pcernie
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jonbwfc
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Bad luck? Given how utterly unregulated the e-cig market seems as far as I can tell, I'm amazed it hasn't happened more often. People are shipping stuff in from christ knows where, made to god knows what if any manufacturing standards and then setting up in vacant retail units to flog as much of it as they can before the trading standards people catch up with them. Most of it looks dodgy as hell. I suspect actual cigarettes are probably safer on average.
Apart from that, the guy needed a supply of pure oxygen piped to him to even survive. What was he doing with an e-cig? Very sensible to have something that works by using a heat source to evaporate volatile chemicals right next to it. That's not a recipe for disaster right there at all.
Bad luck? Rank effing stupidity more like.
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pcernie
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I was being sarky, but trying to get a smilie to work on this browser on this phone... So I didn't bother.
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saspro
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So a guy using a cheap e-cig plugs it in to charge using a psu that wasn't supplied with the unit next to exygen tanks and it explodes.
Not exactly the e-cig that caused the problem. Sticking a 2amp charge through a battery that's expecting 500ma and leaving it to charge unmonitored is always going to be an issue (like the iphones that exploded when using cheap knockoff chargers)
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Yeah, but it sounds better when you can blame the smoker's last refuge.
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finlay666
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Why not blame those exploding Sony Vaio laptop batteries... The fact it was next to an accelerant (oxygen tank) hardly helped things though _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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jonbwfc
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The major question that occurs to me is - the bloke was on an oxygen supply, his lungs were obviously fecked. Why on earth were his family/GP etc letting him smoke e-cigs?
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pcernie
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brataccas
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smoking kills
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John_Vella
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I'm being slightly pedantic here, but you don't "smoke" them. They produce vapour, which is almost the same as fog, not smoke.
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