Posted on 03/24/2014 12:12:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It can be bought on the Internet in flavors like chocolate and bubble gum—and just a teaspoon could kill a child: The New York Times takes a look at liquid nicotine, the e-liquid used in e-cigarettes, which it describes as a "powerful neurotoxin ... far more dangerous than tobacco." And with good reason: Reports of accidental liquid nicotine poisonings rose 300% from 2012 to 1,351 cases last year, with 2014's figure expected to be double that.
The victims, many children under the age of four, can experience vomiting and seizures after being exposed to even a modest amount orally or through the skin.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune notes that the bottles often convey their flavors with potentially enticing photos of fruits or chocolate, which could attract youngsters; teens, on the flip side, may be combining it with energy drinks to get high, per Fox News Insider.
"It's not a matter of if a child will be seriously poisoned or killed. It's a matter of when," says a director with California's Poison Control System.
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I’d have to look up the actual toxicity, but I don’t think a teaspoon of most of those would kill a person, even a child.
Ingestion not recommended, and I’m sure you’d get pretty sick, but I suspect you’d survive most of them.
I swallowed a good deal more than that of gasoline as a kid and survived the experience. Don’t recommend it, though.
Liquid nicotine was used as the murder weapon in a Columbo episode, to make it look like the man died from smoking cigarettes. In fact—he DID die that way, as the cigarette he smoked had been “doctored” with liquid nicotine sulfate. But Ol’ Columbo did NOT fall for it.
One of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot mysteries features a series of murders in which the victims were poisoned by nicotine in their cocktails.
It does not matter. If you oppose banning any of those, you hate children.
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Exactly.
Yes, and in a normal country, at a normal time, I would be all for this observation being made public.
But at this time and in this country, all it is, is a setup for a coming ban.
Precautions do not a war make.
Precautions do not a war make.
Well if the Drug War has taught us anything, it’s that if something is dangerous for children, it should be illegal for adults.
I think the E-Cigs proponents have gone the other way.
“If you support any restrictions on E-cigs at all, you’re a nanny state supporter that must hate smokers and wish all them to die.”
I think the E-Cigs proponents have gone the other way.
“If you support any restrictions on E-cigs at all, you’re a nanny state supporter that must hate smokers and wish all them to die.”
Just a tiny bit of Di hydrogen oxide can kill a child. Especially if frozen.
Ban water now!
Is this going to be the standard for every consumer product? Bullet-proof Child Safety? Because if it is, there’s not going to be a lot of new products coming on line.
I suspect this is just an anti-smoking gambit gone too far. I’m not a smoker, but the anti-smokers are a bit crazy if you ask me.
Back in the day when smokin at a bar was quite normal, I saw more than one person drink what they thought was the last bit of beer from a bottle. Unfortunately, the bottle had been used as an ashtray, butts and all. Other than becoming a weird shade of green for a bit, they all lived.
Nicotine sulfate is a known pesticide. Nicotine, not so much.
Best insecticide going.soak a bag of red man in a gallon of water strain dilute 50/50 kills everything,but the plant
I deal with toxicity a good bit in my line of work, and I always find it amusing how accustomed people get to “chemicals” they’re around frequently, like bleach, while freaking out about much less toxic chemicals they’re not familiar with.
It is probable that dihydrogen monoxide kills more people than any other chemical.
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