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You can also die from caffeine. What is your point, beyond "the dose makes the poison"?

• klodolph 8y ago
  The fact that a risk exists is irrelevant, and it was never the point. If you want to understand the risks associated with nicotine and caffeine, you measure them. There are a number of metrics we can use as a proxy for risk, like margin of exposure or margin of safety, but these give us an incomplete understanding of the risks. The problem with electronic cigarettes is that children are particularly prone to the following things: - Eating or drinking inappropriate things, - Eating or drinking things which are colorful or have a pleasant aroma, and - Being more sensitive to certain chemicals (e.g. nicotine) than adults. So if you told me, "Let's put nicotine in a mango-scented liquid and put it in reach of children," I think we should be alarmed. Likewise, when we took iron supplements and put them in the shape of colorful pills or animals with a sweet taste like candy, and then children started eating them and getting iron poisoning, we got concerned.