E cigarette fluid toxicity

Re: E cigarette fluid toxicity

Michael Woodhouse — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:13:35 GMT

I was watching a documentary about smoking a few years ago (around the time they banned it in pubs). They said the tax revenue for smoking was something like 4X the cost of treating smoking related illness on the NHS. Also more saved because they don't live as long etc......

TBH I'm all for free choice, if you want to smoke crack on, just don't inflict it on others. Legalise drugs and tax them too. Would eradicate a hell of a lot of crime and generate billions for the economy.

Re: E cigarette fluid toxicity

Stephen Courtney — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:09:18 GMT

Nicotine is extremely poisonous. It always has been - if you absorb the average amount of nicotine in one cigarette all at once it would kill you instantly. As opposed to slowly...

So a small animal, or even a small child, getting hold of a bottle of nicotine refiller for E cigarettes is likely to be poisoned. Not something i had ever considered but obviously this will happen from time to time unless the things are banned, forcing addicts to use the real thing and therefore continue being taxed to the max for the dubious pleasure of being social pariahs while slowly killing themselves.

If the government really really wanted people to stop smoking they would make it impossible, by taxing it punitively rather than opportunistically. But the truth is they want the cash. And smokers are an easy target. They are addicts and can't stop easily without a great push. Smokers also tend to die younger so need less pension provision, less geriatric care, all in return for paying extra taxes and dying relatively quickly from largely untreatable diseases, at about retirement age when their economic usefulness is at an end.. What more could a caring society want?

Speaking as a 10 year ex smoker hence a little sourness about this post....

Re: E cigarette fluid toxicity

James Laidlaw — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:51:53 GMT

I think it's nicotine toxicity. In the bsava poisons guide.