Unbelievable - Guardian journalist needs shooting

[toots]

Here we go again

Negative article - sorry guys   

But for now, e-cigarette manufacturers preside over a cowboy industry that’s expanding at breakneck speed.

What the hell, this journalist from the Guardian needs shooting

[Ron]

Its the Huffington post

[toots]

Feb 21, 2015 13:17:15 GMT Ron said:

Its the Huffington post

It says 'The Guardian' at the top of the website I'm looking at

Just reading all the comments, the author/journalist whatever is getting a bashing

[Ripshod]

From www.theguardian.com/profile/nash-riggins:

Nash Riggins is an American journalist based in central Scotland

ahem

I'll be adding to this later.

[Ron]

Goggle his name he is freelance

[Ripshod]

Ron is the same artilcle in the Huffington Post?

[Ron]

yes according to the comments

[Ripshod]

So we have an American Journalist, living in Scotland, whose only qualification is an Arts Degree, commenting regarding e-cigarettes and Scottish health policy - and selling it to whoever will buy it.

POOR SHOW The Guardian and anyone else buying this tripe.

[Ron]

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nash-riggins/

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Reading that, it's a stretch to call him a journalist & he has the right name, as that ill informed article is enough to make anyone gNash!!

[Ripshod]

Thanks for the link Ron. Reading through a few of his previous articles it's clear to me he looks at, and writes about everything as an American.

Nothing against Americans - well not all of them!!

[Clivia]

and what annoys me most, is that people, who have no clue of vaping or smoking and who read that will come up with the usual stupid comments arghhhhhhhhhh

[Get Off My Cloud]

E-cigs don’t contain the same type of nicotine you might find in an ordinary tobacco leaf. They contain liquid nicotine, which can be lethal: doctors say a tablespoon of some e-liquids on the market would be enough to kill an adult; half a teaspoon could kill a child. And the worst part is, you don’t even need to ingest these liquids to end up in hospital. Mere skin contact with concentrated liquid nicotine is enough to cause symptoms of poisoning, such as dizziness, elevated blood pressure and seizures.

Which doctors?
Or should i say witch doctors?

The most concentrated nicotine solution that is legal to sell and buy in the UK is 72mg per 100ml.
Even the official toxicity level figures which were calculated in the 19th century put the lower lethal dose limit at 60mg of nicotine.
I'm no math expert but i do have a calculator and i work it out that you would need 83.33ml of the strongest undiluted solution you can legally buy in order to reach the 60mg dose.
How on Earth does that tally with the report here claiming that some doctors say a teaspoon or approximately 5ml of ejuice could kill someone?

Granted a much lower dose can cause serious health issues but why the need to over exaggerate or over hype unless it's for propaganda reasons?

And ejuice doesn't contain the same kind of nicotine as found in tobacco leaves?
Nicotine is nicotine, the only difference is it naturally occurs in tobacco plants and with vaping you use a liquid as a carrier solution.
Putting nicotine in PG or VG doesn't magically transform it into something else, it doesn't chemically become another compound.
It's a carrier solution only there is no chemical reaction.
It's like saying a pebble on a dry beach is different to a pebble where the tide is in and it's underwater.

[Ron]

Nash Riggins is an American freelance journalist based in central Scotland. He currently writes for The Huffington Post, World Finance and Ones to Watch. For more from Nash, follow his blog at: www.nashriggins.com.

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13 pages of comments - the vast majority explaining how the article is highly misleading. The Guardian should really put a rider up on this one - not sure how it passed editorial oversight.