fire warnings on e-cigs

[Deleted]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30064154

Maybe they should put them on iphones too?

What was happening though? Cos I'm happy vaping away and for the first time in 3 years of vaping my smoke alarm decides to go off at 5.45am....neighbours going to love me LOL. No fire ...just smoke alarm having a 'moment' LOL

Good image - no cig a like - evod I reckon but still

Who is going to read down to the common sense at the bottom?

Jane

[Montana]

I saw this on BBC Breakfast ( or whatever it's called ) at 06:00 this morning.

This is just another instance of the public being brainwashed by someone's PAID for agenda.


Andy

[clairea]

maybe it should say fire hazard if you are stupid enough to use incorrect charger

[Montana]

Nov 15, 2014 11:22:29 GMT clairea said:

maybe it should say fire hazard if you are stupid enough to use incorrect charger

If it was a nature program , it would be called " Natural selection "

Or put it another way , if you do something that's AMAZINGLY THICK , don't expect the rest of us to pay for it !!



Andy

[Karma]

TBH if I wasn't a member of this forum I wouldn't have given a second thought to using any charger that fit and worked, so perhaps having a warning on the packaging is a good idea

[Chris]

Agree with karma, seems like a sensible and appropriate response.

[prr]

On the positive side, if by putting advice/warning about charging we stop devices catching fire or venting then a line of histeria is removed from the likes of the Daily Fail.

[markus]

[Deleted]

It seems sensible to me. There's obviously a problem and as Karma said if your a 'non-forum' vaper your not as aware of the whole safety aspect.

[Montana]

Well now is the time to make industry standard chargers for certain types of connection , if need be lower the charging rate to accommodate smaller batteries.

That would alleviate the problem , so the nannies can point the finger elsewhere , and the Anti's then can't blame the E-cigs , even though it was the E-cigs fault in the first place.


Andy

[Raffles]

Agree in principle, but not if it just singles out ecigs. Better instructions for all chargers and electrical appliances should be mandatory. If it wasn't for the 'experts' on here I wouldn't have a clue.

Makes more sense than straight bananas or cucumbers.

[djs]

Fire risk warnings...?

Yes. Makes sense.

7,500,000 e-cigs sold in the UK (including 3,000,000 E-Shites and 10 Motivations) and a huge and frankly unacceptable 62 have done some very bad and awfully naughty exploding stuff.

Tut, Tut.

Of course... smoking is much safer. Smoking only costs £610,000,000 per year in fire related incidents.

Just the 610 MILLION POUNDS.

Take up smoking. You know you want to.

[Montana]

Nov 15, 2014 17:33:12 GMT Raffles said:

Agree in principle, but not if it just singles out ecigs. Better instructions for all chargers and electrical appliances should be mandatory. If it wasn't for the 'experts' on here I wouldn't have a clue.

Makes more sense than straight bananas or cucumbers.

No-one wants to single out E-cigs.What I was thinking was along the lines of , and an example would be a Micro USB , should be rated at x charging rate and that's what all Micro USB chargers should be for whatever purpose , whether it be  a phone , MP3 player or E-cig.Then do the same with all chargers where there seems to be a risk of fire because of the wrong charger has been used.
We all know here ( because we use the forum and there are very helpful and knowledgeable people here ) that using the correct charger is a must , but not all vapers do as someone has already mentioned.We also all know here that E-cigs , even percentage wise aren't the major culprit as far as fires go, it's phone chargers , so it's about time that all got sorted to an industry standard.


Andy

[Greg]

Nov 15, 2014 17:54:53 GMT Montana said:

Nov 15, 2014 17:33:12 GMT Raffles said:

Agree in principle, but not if it just singles out ecigs. Better instructions for all chargers and electrical appliances should be mandatory. If it wasn't for the 'experts' on here I wouldn't have a clue.

Makes more sense than straight bananas or cucumbers.

No-one wants to single out E-cigs.What I was thinking was along the lines of , and an example would be a Micro USB , should be rated at x charging rate and that's what all Micro USB chargers should be for whatever purpose , whether it be  a phone , MP3 player or E-cig.Then do the same with all chargers where there seems to be a risk of fire because of the wrong charger has been used.
We all know here ( because we use the forum and there are very helpful and knowledgeable people here ) that using the correct charger is a must , but not all vapers do as someone has already mentioned.We also all know here that E-cigs , even percentage wise aren't the major culprit as far as fires go, it's phone chargers , so it's about time that all got sorted to an industry standard.


Andy

But that would mean some items would take far longer to charge than necessary. Surely labelling is the best way forward rather than dumbing everything down to idiot level 

[jevans]

Nov 15, 2014 11:12:38 GMT Montana said:

This is just another instance of the public being brainwashed by someone's PAID for agenda.

Do you actually know this?

Jim