The Sun this morning - E-Cig Gran Critical

[GunJack]

Can't find the link, but apparently it blew up her oxygen supply and they don't know if she'll pull through.... wouldn't have thought an e-cig would get hot enough....

headlines like this won't help the cause

[Deleted]

this is the link www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5567827/E-cigarette-gran-blown-up-in-hospital.html

Not paying to read the full article. Probably made up by a Dodgy journalist

[markm]

a glowing coil perhaps, if she was sucking the pure oxygen through a dried out wick.
I don't know the critical temperatures, but I think pure oxygen is quite easy to ignite.

[Phoenix .]

One of my foster children's Grandmother had oxygen tanks in her home and she still Smoked!

[collie2011]

Oxygen from those tanks only needs a spark to ignite. It burns out pretty fast with no fuel to keep it going. I've seen people with those oxygen tanks up their noses and they are smoking, if they accidentally melt the plastic tube they could ignite the oxygen.

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[Greigster]

Pure oxygen will not ignite at any pressure. There must be a reactant, ie, a fuel which can then be oxidised. Even as a liquid combinant in rockets, oxygen must have a 'fuel' such as hydrogen , etc.

[fagin]

And in breaking news, idiots injure themselves.

[smarties]

You have all noticed which comic paper this was in haven't you?

[Deleted]

That's why I didn't waste a precious 40p just now on it

[CaptainChaos]

She probably tried to light her ecig with a match.

[dragon]

Mine won't light with a match That's when I realised why people on here talk about blow torches

[andy01424]

Apr 14, 2014 8:10:36 GMT @johanino said:

That's why I didn't waste a precious 40p just now on it

its a good paper,like the rest,and like our local one....they make good kitty tray liners !!!

[djs]

An E-Lites makes a spark.

Shame on them. They should be banned.

... hold on Dave, they are the best e-cig in the UK, you can't say such things....

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"Cease and desist Mr James-Salisbury... or we will instruct our lawyers to take you to court"

[toots]

Here's the link for the article in the Daily Fail: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603975/OAP-engulfed-flames-seriously-burned-e-cigarette-ignites-oxygen-Manchester-hospital.html

[CaptainChaos]

Ah yes - charging an ecig possibly near where liquids are being poured/spilled/dropped - that'll be sensible then.