The United States Navy officially banned e-cigarettes from its entire fleet of ships, subs, aircraft, and other heavy equipment earlier this week.
The vaping ban had been under consideration since August 2016, after a dozen incidents of exploding e-cigarettes reportedly caused fires, explosions, and first-degree burns.
Meanwhile e-cigs are getting smarter: some now tout smartphone connectivity, and one can apparently receive phone calls. This trend has apparently not solved the e-cigs’ occasional battery woes.
According to a 2014 FEMA trend report, lithium-ion batteries rarely go up in smoke, but the “shape and construction” of e-cigs can lead the devices to “behave like ‘flaming rockets’ when a battery fails.”
