From thehill.com
"Incoming Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is calling on the federal government to consider recalling e-cigarette batteries and devices that can injure users, The Associated Press reported.
Schumer, who has called e-cigarettes "ticking time bombs," planned a Sunday news conference on the topic, according to the AP.
The news service reported that there have been reports of the devices exploding and catching on fire, resulting in serious injuries.
Schumer is calling on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to find out why so many of the devices are exploding, it added.
“We cannot look the other way now that it is regulated and more Americans will use them,’’ he said earlier this year, according to Newsday. "We ask the FDA to do its job and investigate why these cigarettes are exploding and force the e-cigarette manufacturers to prevent this from happening.’’
Schumer cited an apparent increase in reported injuries. The FDA identified 92 explosions from 2009 to September 2015 and 66 from just 2015 and early 2016."
The reason that many of these devices explode is likely because the dumbass users take it upon themselves to modify the original engineering of the electronic device. They even call the powerful e-cig devices "mods", as in modified. These devices have high-voltage batteries. They don't even look like a cigarette. The e-cigs that look like cigarettes (cig a like) do not have high-voltage batteries and thus are not at all likely to explode.
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If you are not a electrical engineer, modifying the battery and electrical components of ANY device is damned dangerous. BOOM! The other battery explosions are likely caused by the highly defective manufacture of some of the devices, devices which are made in China and made badly.
Congress is investigating 66 e-cig battery explosions? Really? What about the THOUSANDS who die or are injured as a result of tinkering with other devices and/or faulty manufacturing? What about investigating and regulating the MILLIONS of defective new automobiles being sold to consumers, some vehicles with deadly flaws? No, instead let's investigate the preventable injuries to 66 e-cig users - and then, for political purposes, ban millions of smokers and ex-smokers from using e-cigs, the best alternative to smoking ever invented! Brilliant.
