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This article takes the cake, just when I thought you may not find anything as bizarre as the last article.

Dr Aithal pointed out that carcinogenic ingredients include formaldehyde, which is a flammable chemical often used in building materials and household products, an anti-freeze substance, as well as diacetyl, which affects the lungs. This chemical causes deposits inside the lungs and eventually destroys the organ.
 

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I live in the UAE and I was aghast when I saw this yesterday. The newspaper is very low quality, to be sure, but it's read by a lot of people.

I saw the paper when I went to have coffee with a local (Emirati) friend. We talked at length about vaping (I should mention he was in Texas last fall and I got him to bring me back a mod) and he understood that it's all about money. This government, like almost all the others, makes money from cigarettes. In fact, the cost will double to triple next year, going from $2.70 to as high as $8 for the big brands. I don't think they realize that at the current price the economic incentive to vape is low but now they're going to bring it to the fore. The GCC also has one of the highest smoking rates in the world so there are a lot of potential vapers here. My understanding is that it is growing despite the ban.

Then later in the day I went to a large get together of expats. What was interesting was how many were smoking. I estimate at least 25% were doing it. I know many of them but haven't seen them in awhile. I brought a couple of mods and had conversations about vaping. Keep in mind that most of the adults there were highly educated, yet not one of them knew anything about vaping, other than the shit they've gleaned from the rags. They also understood the forces arrayed against vaping. A few even tried my mods, but there was a general lack of interest from most of the smokers even though we were all outside talking in a large group. No one said to me that they would like to start vaping. I figure that I've done what I can do and perhaps I've piqued some interest. I despair at times when I envision the future of vaping.
 

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there is more tar in shisha than ciggs!! at $8 for a pack of ciggs there is prob no incentive to quit. fuk new zealand is like 28+ for a pack!!! oh shit, $32.50 for a pack. thing is i still see a lot of poorer people buying them. UAE is freakin backwards when it comes to some things imo
 

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at $8 for a pack of ciggs there is prob no incentive to quit.
No incentive? I was paying about $6 a pack when I switched to vaping in 2013. My savings since then are over $14k. That will buy one fairly decent used car, or a lot of very nice vape gear.
 

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I live in the UAE and I was aghast when I saw this yesterday.
Isn't vaping, or vape goods technically illegal there, no? I've read stories about people having their gear confiscated at the airport, even when they were only there for a transit stop.
 

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Yeah. (RULE VIOLATION REMOVED BY STAFF) that treat women like objects to be owned, and killed like rabid dogs if some MAN rapes them. Like any intelligent person gives a shit what they think about anything.

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Isn't vaping, or vape goods technically illegal there, no? I've read stories about people having their gear confiscated at the airport, even when they were only there for a transit stop.
yup, its illegal- but u can smoke shisha and chop peoples heads off..thats legal!!
 

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Isn't vaping, or vape goods technically illegal there, no? I've read stories about people having their gear confiscated at the airport, even when they were only there for a transit stop.

Vaping is in a grey area right now. It's illegal to bring it into the country, but not to own or use them. It's similar to bringing in food product into many countries, they'll take it away but you don't get into trouble.

There are people who are selling a lot of stuff online now. You buy from the site and they deliver it to your home or work and pay cash. I've been wondering how they managed to get so much stuff into customs, as it's not easy nor consistent. Then last week I was speaking with some locals and they told me how it's done. Quite simple, actually, but not worth doing for the occasional mod or tank.
 

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I've been living in the UAE since 1999. I've worked in 6 countries over the past 22 years and I've visited almost 90. The UAE is one of the safest places to live in the world. I grew up in Boston, my wife grew up in Brooklyn and Atlanta. Raising our children here is very good for all of us. The US has one of the highest, if not the highest, murder rates among 1st world countries. Americans don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing other countries about crime rates or crime against women.

None of you know anything about the UAE. Most Americans couldn't fine it on a map or know that Dubai is not a country or understand that just because the UAE is next to Saudi, that they are very different, just like Germany is from its neighbors or Japan is from China. Just as we know the vaping industry is pounded by propaganda, which many of you claim to see through, the shit that has just been posted here is also propaganda and you fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Don't be a tool.

I suggest you just let this one alone.
 

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Yeah. (RULE VIOLATION REMOVED BY STAFF) that treat women like objects to be owned, and killed like rabid dogs if some MAN rapes them. Like any intelligent person gives a shit what they think about anything.

Andria

I'm intelligent and I care what they think.
 

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I've been living in the UAE since 1999. I've worked in 6 countries over the past 22 years and I've visited almost 90. The UAE is one of the safest places to live in the world. I grew up in Boston, my wife grew up in Brooklyn and Atlanta. Raising our children here is very good for all of us. The US has one of the highest, if not the highest, murder rates among 1st world countries. Americans don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing other countries about crime rates or crime against women.

None of you know anything about the UAE. Most Americans couldn't fine it on a map or know that Dubai is not a country or understand that just because the UAE is next to Saudi, that they are very different, just like Germany is from its neighbors or Japan is from China. Just as we know the vaping industry is pounded by propaganda, which many of you claim to see through, the shit that has just been posted here is also propaganda and you fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Don't be a tool.

I suggest you just let this one alone.

Cute story, but I beg to differ. My passport would equally match yours. Sorry that you and your wife grew up in two of the shittiest cities in the US and you in particular one of the shittiest States in the US. I spent a portion of my teens in the Midwest and my wife was raised in North Carolina, both of us would not hesitate raising our children in either one of those regions, and yes of course there are places in the Middle East that I would raise my children as well. Crime is where the money ISN'T. And those committing the crimes are typically those that seek to take what they don't have. What everyone is speaking on is the lunacy of the ideological concept of the moslem religion. Sounds like you've been pounding sand and drinking kool-aide for one too many years.
 

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