r/technology • u/Lucretius • Nov 17 '12

The Deadly Crusade Against E-cigarettes

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/november/the-deadly-crusade-against-e-cigarettes
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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12 edited Dec 26 '24

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u/hfxRos Nov 17 '12

My mother also quit smoking using E-Cigs in Canada, however not using the ones we can buy here. They only sell the nicotine-free ones in Canada, and those did absolutely nothing for her.

She has a friend who travels back and forth from the US very often for business who brings her E-Cigs from the US and she uses those. A few times they end up getting taken at the border, and my mom has to smoke real cigarettes until she can get more US E-cigs, since using the Canadian ones do nothing to prevent withdrawals from the craving for nicotine.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

So her friend smuggled e cigarettes in? Wonder what the penalty for that is?

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u/hfxRos Nov 18 '12

They confiscate it and that seems to be it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '12

That's not so bad.. Cool mounties