1) These have been around for years, in countries far less "dumb" than America.
2) These have been around in AMERICA for a long time ... I love how they're just hitting the "news" now.
3) They're fairly smart, actually. Nicotine, by its little old self, is fairly innocuous other than being addictive. It isn't much more damaging than caffeine. What kills you in a cigarette is NOT the nicotine. This device is essentially a nebulizer that delivers only the nicotine, without all the crap that kills you. If you can't seem to kick smoking and need that fix, this is a major improvement. Major. Not dumb at all.
4) Please tell me how "smart" Chantix et al are. How many people have they killed again? E-cigs have not, on record, killed anyone yet. Are regular cigarettes smart? Because again, if someone offers a product that is
acres ahead of the deadly one it's intended to replace, I don't consider that dumb.
5) Edit to add important thing I forgot: NO secondhand smoke. That's huge. The "smoke" that comes out is a harmless vapor that you can't even smell. I had to laugh when one of the politicians making a stand against the e-cig claimed that trace amounts of nicotine might escape in the exhaled vapor and out into the air. Really? Sounds awful. That would be almost as bad as if trace amounts of deadly carbon dioxide escaped people's mouths when they exhaled!!!
People are so shallow and quick to make fun of things. Of course it looks ridiculous on the outside. Try actually reading about it. You will also find it does have many flaws ... the main one, in my assessment, being that they're all made in China and unregulated, hence the FDA's finding of trace antifreeze in one sample. But the product itself is
not new and it's
not stupid. I think because of the arena the product is being advertised in and sold in (Internet, mall kiosks), for the most part, it comes off as being more gimmicky and tacky than it really is. But believe me, if Pfizer popped out one of these, everyone would be talking about how genius is was. FDA included ...
Personally, I think the ignorant thing in all this is how quickly people are writing this product off.