Other substances in the home can be just as dangerous as nicotine. For example, you could encounter a legal overdose from one of your prescription drugs; from certain herbs or vitamins (like Vitamin A); or from drinking liquor, if you really drank in excess.
6) Liquid nicotine can be dangerous if …show more content…
This could possibly hold some validity in the future, but it does not seem to be the case, so far.
Still, we all need to take the responsible route here: to educate our children about the dangers of smoking, to avoid glorifying the act of smoking in any way, and to relay the truth that nicotine is a drug and that smoking nicotine represents a drug addiction.
9) Nicotine could be lethal, if a child should drink it.
This is very true. It could also be lethal if an adult should drink it. Caution is strongly advised, and you must keep liquid nicotine products away from children. This should not present a major problem for most people, especially if you take care to only purchase liquid nicotine products that have the child proof caps on them.
While we should definitely be careful, most of us already use numerous products in our daily lives that can be similarly poisonous -- liquid bleach, for example.
PART 4 Ecigarettes: 10 Dangers -- Part 4
10) Electronic cigarettes can sometimes emit faint odors, which can irritate people with chemical …show more content…
Just treat them with the same caution and care that you would use for your prescription drugs, and weigh the dangers against the very real benefits you are getting.
The biggest advantage that electonic cigarettes offer is the chance to step down your nicotine intake or eventually eliminate your nicotine addiction for good. Even if you NEVER reduce your nicotine intake, at least you won't be ingesting the 4000 other poisons that you used to calmly accept when you smoked regular cigarettes. Those substances include things like tar, carbon monoxide, arsenic, cyanide, and formaldehyde. It's no wonder regular cigarettes have proven extremely dangerous to your lungs, your arteries and your heart.
Think of the ecigarette as a health cigarette. You are putting more oxygen into your body, and keeping the air clean for your fellow citizens. And don't forget that you are completely eliminating secondhand smoke for your children and pets -- smoke that was just as deadly for them as if they were smoking those regular cigarettes