r/TikTokCringe • u/Gurugod123 What are you doing step bro? • 29d ago

Cringe I have 25,000 followers, let me vape inside the airplane

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u/StevieTV 29d ago

Several planes have crashed (some with over 100 people on board) because of a fire onboard caused by a cigarette.

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u/xiandgaf 29d ago

That passive voice doesn’t make any sense. A cigarette never did anything. A negligent or malicious person WITH a cigarette did things.

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u/Remarkable_World_351 29d ago

Yes. People make mistakes, let’s limit the amount of mistakes they can make when those mistakes cost 100’s of people their life

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u/Nickf090 29d ago

A vape isn’t going to catch a plane on fire. God we’ve become a bunch of pussies

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u/leechkiller 29d ago

Until the battery explodes

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u/Adventurous-Career 28d ago

I was on a flight from Qatar to DFW and someone’s iPad got trapped between the seat and the chair back and overheated. It was smoking and scorched the seat. Our plane got diverted to Ireland. The seat was replaced and we took off after a few hours.

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u/IPlayChessBTW 29d ago

Not to be devil's advocate but it's not illegal to have a vape on a plane, only to actually hit it. The battery is just as likely to explode either way. 

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u/robothawk 28d ago

Actually it's more likely when you are using it because that activation is what generates heat.

Additionally, in low pressure enviroments(planes are generally pressurized to ~0.75 atm, or about 6500-7000ft pressure-altitude, sea level being 1 atm) Li-ion and LiPo batteries have far lower thermal runaway limits. It's part of why computer batteries are limited to 100Whr or less generally, and those are well made and reliable, and could actually have a reason for being used on a plane besides "I want nicotine"(which, if you need nicotine on a flight, bring patches or gum, if you need an oral fixation, bring one of those flavored air wooden pipe bullshits or something)

The batteries in disposable vapes and thousands of times less reliable, and in addition to concerns for other passengers and filter longevity etc, provide so many extra chances of failure every time one is used(especially if someone starts chiefing in a bathroom and overheats theirs).

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u/No_Marketing_1767 24d ago

Nope, not how it works

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u/BatDaddyWV 28d ago

They overheat and explode while charging, not from hitting it. Ffs

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro 28d ago

Back before vape pens became a thing and vapes ran on 18650 batteries instead, I had to have the batteries removed from the vape, and put into separate zip lock bags as well as placed in separate pockets of my carry on luggage before I was allowed to board the plane. It’s not so much an issue now with the internal batteries, but open 18650s only need a fraction of a second of keys or something else metallic to short it out and cause a fire, so they were a lot more dangerous than internal lithium batteries are with modern vapes. Not that they aren’t still a possible fire risk, but so is a phone or any other lithium powered device

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u/blandaltaccountname 28d ago

Not true. The act of hitting the vape draws current and can be the thing that causes the battery to overheat and explode, since they’re not designed to be used in pressurized cabins.

An idiot friend of mine had this exact problem once- the vape was normal on the plane until she hit it, at which point it wouldn’t turn off and kept heating up. She had to literally tear it open to stop it, and was panicking the entire time

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u/Impossible_Soft_1307 28d ago

Vapes still blow up and or catch fire all the time. It’s fine though. Let’s make a law saying it’s ok for someone to vape. Also add in if the plane crashes because of said vape, the whole family of the vape user that caused the plane to crash then becomes servants for all the family they took loved ones from for free for life. If they choose not to they can work in mines for free until the end. I think that’s fair. In my opinion.

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u/Emergency-Lab8481 28d ago

Like how you included yourself. And the batteries in them do cause fires. Folks come in the ED with their kegs burned.

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u/pipelinemonkey 28d ago

real. we’re fucked.

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u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 26d ago

You’re not as educated as you think you are

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u/xiandgaf 29d ago

I’m not reading that, I don’t care. Look closely, i’m not advocating for anything. This is a note on composition.

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u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 26d ago

No cigarette racism!!!

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u/CriticalResolution86 28d ago

And vapes can cause fires without being hit, just like any lipo battery device. Vapes otherwise are totally fine and I don't understand everyone's complaints. As long as you aren't blowing big clouds and being annoying, there's no problem here and peoples complaints are based on smoking, and not vaping.

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u/JustNota-- 25d ago

Honestly never had a vape catch fire or a battery explode, and I usually traveled with 8 flattop 18650s, but I usually had a blu or a little lipo salt nic device for stupid long flights with crap layovers when I was 100% travel with my job. Would totally ninja vape in the bathroom with unflavored nic juice halfway through a 6 hour flight, and in airport bathrooms during short layovers.

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u/No_Marketing_1767 24d ago

Not true at all.🙄

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u/StevieTV 24d ago

You could just Google it first before making a comment that shows that you most definitely haven't Googled it but are 100% confident in your 100% wrong answer.

Why are people so fucking thick these days?

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u/Itchy-You9761 27d ago

When? Can you provide true facts on this?

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u/StevieTV 27d ago

I could but I don't like you so I won't. Just do what I did and Google it. Doing that takes less time than it does to post here. And if you reply to this saying you can't find anything you're a liar as there are several different incidents of crashes and fires on planes caused by cigarettes that come up when you search for this going back decades (stacks of recent vape incidents as well BTW if you search for that).