[craftyguy]

So your argument is that because e-cig users are coming from one harmful product, that we should do nothing to prevent the new product from causing undue harm, and that eventually (decades?) e-cigs will become safer because someone (who?) will eventually phase out the harmful ones?

Why not stop wasting time and lives, and prevent the harmful ones from being produced/released?

[JamesBarney]

I don't think he's making the argument that on principle there should never be any e-cigs regulations because cigarettes are harmful.

The algebra for e-cig regulation is # of people saved by regulation - # of people killed by regulation(people who smoke more cigarettes because of the increased cost, and decreased variety of e-cigs)

And because cigarettes are sooooo dangerous even a small increase in smoking can causes the second term to overwhelm the first.

[j0rd]

Because it stops innovation.

Ni200 which is a pure nickel wire was invented for temperature control. Required a specific device and chip to use as it has almost 0 resistance. Some stupid uneducated people or vendors sold it and and used it in non temperature controlled devices and poisoined themselves (not fatally), or blew up their batteries on non-regulated devices.

I just started vaping last month, and while I bought some kanthal wire, I also bought some ni200 and Titanium wire, which is dangerous if not used correctly. I personally didn't know, but also didn't use it until I looked it up.

With that said, ni200 wire did invent temperature control, which is a method of vaping these days.

[snuxoll]

316L stainless steel is a much safer option than Ni200 or titanium wire, shame it's not more commonly used (Kangertech sells 316L coils, but they're awfully hard to find compared to the Ni200 ones).

[j0rd]

Personally use SS316L now. Hard to find though.

[snuxoll]

I think regulations are certainly warranted, but the ones the FDA has implemented are heavy handed. I don't think anyone in the industry is opposed to common sense regulations.