{"id":166482,"date":"2016-05-27T08:19:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166482"},"modified":"2016-05-27T08:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T06:21:45","slug":"e-cigarettes-are-exploding-in-peoples-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/166482-e-cigarettes-are-exploding-in-peoples-faces.html","title":{"rendered":"E-cigarettes are exploding in people&#8217;s faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic cigarettes have come under the spotlight for the potential to explode in the face of their users, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/josephbernstein\/burned?utm_term=.bcWpY62Yx#.mi0X1rZ1p\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BuzzFeed<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report focussed on several US cases in which e-cigarette users &#8211; also known as vapers &#8211; were seriously injured as a result of faulty devices.<\/p>\n<p>One users lost an eye, while another\u00a0had his\u00a0teeth smashed from his\u00a0gums due to an exploding device.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An unpublished FDA analysis found 66 reports of e-cigarette overheating, fires, and explosions in 2015 and the first month of 2016, a number the agency calls an underestimate of actual events,&#8221; stated BuzzFeed.<\/p>\n<p>The e-cigarette industry has grown rapidly in recent years, stated the report, with claimed health benefits over traditional cigarettes a strong selling point.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on gadgets<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/165842-the-wristband-that-measures-how-much-alcohol-youve-had-to-drink.html\">The wristband that measures how much alcohol you\u2019ve had to drink<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/165478-virtual-reality-sex-is-coming-soon-heres-what-it-will-be-like.html\">Virtual Reality sex is coming soon \u2013 here\u2019s what it will be like<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic cigarettes have come under the spotlight for the potential to explode in the face of their users, according to a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":166488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,37374,37376],"class_list":["post-166482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-e-cigarette","tag-vaping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166490,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166482\/revisions\/166490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}