Another Stupid Article of the Day, this time from WLOX in Biloxi, Mississippi.
HD, of course, stands for “Hella Dumb”
I think they mean well, but then they go pulling out quotes like this one:
“But is vapor from an e-cigarette really smoke? There’s no real answer…”
Let me clear up some confusion for you, WLOX. Yes, there is a real answer.  Vapor and smoke are two very different things.  I can see why you’re confused, since one is heated liquid, and the other comes from burning stuff, but trust me, they’re different.  If you really believe there’s not an obvious difference, come back to me  after you’re successful lighting some water on fire.
The idiocy doesn’t stop there, though.
” The selling point for the devices says it all: Smoke them anywhere you want.”
Sure, that’s the selling point for e-cigarettes: if you’re an e-cigarette company owned by one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, i.e., Blu. Â You know what the selling point is for the rest of us? That they’re not cigarettes. They don’t make you stink. They won’t cloud other people in second smoke. They don’t carry a few thousand carcinogens. Â Hey, wait… I think maybe there’s more than one selling point for e-cigarettes. Â I must be some kind of investigative journalist to have figured that out.
“Independent studies have shown the e-cigarettes themselves could possibly contain one or two cancer causing agents.”
I don’t mind the mention of this so much as the fact that it’s not followed up with the explanation that those one or two agents were found in levels so low that they were, in fact, not enough to be considered carcinogenic. Â Also not mentioned is that, while there may be one or two cancer-causing agents in some e-juice, that compares pretty damned favorably to the backhoe full of carcinogens in your average cigarette.
I appreciate the reporter’s feeble attempts to remain impartial, but my God, think a little.
Smoking rules likely to evolve for electronic cigarettes – wlox.com
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