Back in 2014 I went to the Indy 500 along with other family. We had an RV parked in the American Legion RV park right across from the track and our spot was right by the road. All along the road were vendors selling food and other things and the vendor closest to us was selling e-cigarettes and the stuff that goes with it. I found it interesting that during there break the clerks for the e-cigarette booth would go behind the booth and ... smoke cigarettes.
There's a vape shop I walk past where the owner is always out side the front door smoking. A clear signal that he's only in it for profit.
E-cigarettes were a genius stroke from the major cigarette makers as a way to get new (young) addicts -- and its working.
I'm afraid this is all BS. The major cigarette companies are the smallest part of the market, they have been buying market share though.
Depends on your viewpoint. In England the smoking rate was fairly flat at 20% for years until 2011 when electronic devices started to take off and had dropped to 15% by 2016 as this graph from Public Health England (based on data from the Office of National Statistics) shows.
One of the major draws for e-cigarettes is the huge cloud of smoke/steam they can generate and it plays off some of the same thing as cigars -- to proclaim to all around that you are not concerned in the least about your impact on others. Back when smoking cigarettes was legal in restaurants etc it was not uncommon for a smoker to not care if there smoke disturbed others -- hey its my right so get used to it.
Brian
What impact does it have on you, especially if it's outside?
It had swollen enough to require pliers to remove it.
Maybe this was what happened, the mod vents on the bottom while the battery if installed in the proscribed manner vents on top. So if the battery swells and closes the gas path to the bottom it can build enough pressure to blow through the insulator on top, through the atomizer and launch the mouthpiece, which isn't threaded on.
From the e-cig devices I've seen (not too many), it is the format of the device that is deadly.
The size of a cigarette pack, with one, two, or three 18650's in it and a right angle tube a cm (each side of the right angle) or so long for sucking the vapor. So, one has to get the batteries as close to the face as a cell phone to take a puff.
There are many ways to ensure batteries doesn't blow towards the smoker who is merely cm's away from the cells. For example, separate compartment for the 18650 cells connected via a few tens of cm's of 10 or 12 gauge wire to the vaporizing compartment. Another way would be to enclose the device 5 sides leaving the side facing away as vent. Ways to make it safer is endless - just no one has done it.
The ones that are rectangular won't explode like this, the batteries are loaded from the side and they are not completely sealed, the door for the battery compartment is usually held in place by small magnets. They are also usually regulated so the voltage drop from using unsuitable cells will cause them to shut off the power before anything goes horribly wrong. The problem is the tubes that take a single cell with a button at the bottom which acts as a switch. Any venting is usually done through the switch and there is no protection at all.