I'm now a week without cigarettes, just an e-cig

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97. Actually they do. 5162 babies under age 5 were reported in just 2011 as having ingested

part of, all of, or more than one tobacco cigarette. That does not include kids under 5 those who sampled chewing tobacco, cigars, dissolvable tobacco, cigarette butts (74), other types of tobacco products (which don't include e-cigs, btw) snuff, and some unknown (forgot to mark a box)

(Those are just the ones reported. I suspect there are probably many more. In my experience, (which includes responding to hundreds of emergency calls) many caretakers and parents don't necessarily rush their kids to help after the adult has done something extraordinarily stupid.)

Anyway, I feel very safe in saying that regulations which prevent kids from purchasing cigarettes apparently had no impact on the infant poisoning cases.

In the same year, 84 exposures from e-cigs.

Zero deaths in any of those. (They quit ingesting them so much after 6, since they learn to use lighters and set shit on fire).

http://www.poison.org/stats/ (links to the stats at the top of this page)

There are two "reported" deaths from e-cig juice in 4 years, one an infant in Israel who was allowed to play with an e-cig and drank the contents, another fella who injected the e-juice.

You can't legislate stupid out of existence.

As a comparison, "Tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths; this equals about 480,000 early deaths each year. (Source: Cancer Facts & Figures 2014; and US Surgeon General Report 2014) "

So, over 4 years, 2 deaths for e-cigs vs almost 2 million for cigarettes. Cigarettes win.

Far more kids die from mommy and daddy's prescription pills, swimming pools, choking, and there are untold safeguards for those.

I'm all for truth in labeling, but any barrier that is placed in front of someone using or obtaining these far safer substitutes in light of the facts is like dancing on the graves of those that will die because of it. No difference between that and some TeaParty fascist wanting to remove things that support people when they need it.

But that's how people are. Because of the way we have developed, our minds replace the real threats with those that are less threatening, and then give them too much importance.

Funny people, us.