Exploding cigarette injures Florida man

Niceville : FL : USA | Feb 18, 2012 at 12:34 AM PST

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Man Suffers Severe Injuries After E-Cigarette Explodes in His Mouth

Electronic cigarettes are declared to be more good for your health than the tobacco kind. But that wasn't the case for a Florida man back an electronic smoke blew up in his face Monday, animadversion out his teeth and abrogation him with astringent burns and added injuries.

Vietnam vet Tom Holloway, of Niceville, has been aggravating to bang the awful addiction for about two years.

His wife rushed to his abstraction back she heard a babble "like a firecracker," according to a neighbor who said this in a report. Holloway's electronic cigarette had exploded, sending baking bits about the allowance that broiled aggregate it touched.

Holloway was advised at a burn centre afterwards the bang "knocked out all his teeth and allotment of his tongue,"said by a neighbor.

Fire arch Butch Parker speculated the cigarette's array may accept ignited.

"It was basically like him captivation a canteen rocket in his mouth," he told the TV station.

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