This is what can happen if an e-cigarette blows up while you’re using it

[Gerald]

A report in the New England Journal of Medicine focuses on a little-known risk of using electronic cigarettes: The devices can explode and cause serious burns. (AP Photo / Rich Pedroncelli)

It was an injury unlike any Dr. Elisha Brownson had seen — a young man whose teeth were blown out when his electronic cigarette exploded in his mouth. His injuries were so severe he was admitted to the trauma intensive care unit.

“I had never heard of an injury mechanism like this before,” said Brownson, a surgeon who specializes in treating people with burns. The patient “left a gruesome impression on me.”

http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...nap-story.html

Dangerous stuff this, similar stories have been told.



Note: October 5 2016