Thursday, June 27, 2013

Please. Just smoke already and quit lying.

Guns & Roses guitarist, DJ Ashba, reported to his fans on webstagram that the e-cigarette he bought at a Polish mall, which he reports he used for 9 months, contained "antifreeze which kills people;" and that his doctors told him to start smoking again, because "the nicotine intake that was going into [his] body" from the smoke-free e-cigarettes "was equivalent to smoking 33 packs of cigarettes a day."



If this was true (which I'm 99.99% positive it's not), that would be like absorbing 660 mg of nicotine a day for 9 months. Assuming he was actually sleeping 8 hours a night and using his e-cigarette non-stop the other 16 hours, he would have had to have been vaping about 17 ml (approximately 12 typical pre-filled cartridges) of 24 mg nicotine per hour to get that much nicotine in his system! Nicotine stays in the human body 24-48 hours and experts say the potential lethal dose of nicotine for a 150 lb human is 30 - 60 mg. I'm not even sure if it's physically possible to vape that much in 60 minutes. Typical e-cigarette users, even previously very heavy smokers, report they use only 3 - 6 ml per day.

Dude, you would have been dead the first day if you vaped that much. Unless you were drinking the liquid straight from the cartridges. If that's the case, you weren't doing it right. And the "anti freeze" lie that people keep spreading around  is getting old. If you prefer smoking, just say so. But please don't tell lies about a device that is saving millions of lives.



16 comments:

  1. well, he plays guitar for Guns n Roses, he has to get people to pay attention to him somehow.

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  2. Either Bloomberg or big tobacco must have slipped a handsome stipend.

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  3. Rock and Roll! Od'ing on e-juice - bet he did it to impress Slash.

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  4. It's been said already but..."Nice cover up story for your OD"

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  5. I had a Doctor tell me this, I laughed in her face. Once I regained my composure I explained to her exectly what was in an ecig. Her opinion changed that day.

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  6. Always suspected him of being a douche, he has now confirmed this vividly. . .

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  7. Super-douche.

    Don't blame E-cigs for your stupid coke/meth habit.

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  8. So the guy who's not Slash is complaining about nicotine overdose (which clearly didn't really happen). That's what gets to rock "stars" these days? Nicotine? WTF has happened to Rock 'n Roll? Keith Richards should just smack this guy around a little.

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  9. This is why you shouldn't by your e-cigs from a fucking mall in Poland.. dumbass

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  10. Maybe the booze and drugs had nothing to do with his "freak out"

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  11. Quit smoking before it gets late as it is harmful for life and health.

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  12. FUCK this M'Fer...go suck on cigss, but don't feed bullshit to people....

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  13. Wow. This is ridiculous. Of course they kept this story out of the media... It isn't true.

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  14. you made a calculation error, it was not 17ml but 1.7ml per hour

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