E-Cigarette Liquid Nicotine: Toxic, Unregulated and Overhyped

E-cigarettes are a hot topic this year. One minute they're public nuisances; the next they're helpful tools for quitting smoking. Other times they make users look like Boba Fett

People just can't seem to agree on them.

The latest alleged danger is the liquid form of nicotine, called "e-liquid," which is used in both e-cigarettes and customizable mods. See a March New York Times article called "Selling Poison by the Barrel: Liquid Nicotine for E-Cigarettes." The piece references several poison control calls from 2013 by parents whose kids had accidentally drunk the liquid

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed its first set of rules toward regulating e-cigarettes and related products on Thursday. It's a standard first step that would prevent anyone under 18 from purchasing e-cigarettes and would also require manufacturers to disclose the products' ingredients and manufacturing processes to the FDA Read more...