Electronic Cigarette Explosion Leaves Florida Man Severely Injured

A man in the Florida panhandle was injured severely when his electronic cigarette exploded.  He lost teeth, part of his tongue and has cuts to his face when the battery for his electronic cigarette somehow ignited as reported by WEAR Channel-3.

Photographer, Vietnam veteran and father of three Tom Holloway was being treated at a burn center, the station reported.

Friends and neighbors reported that Mr. Holloway stopped smoking for 2 years with the help of electronic cigarettes due to health issues.

Fire officials theorize that the cigarette’s battery somehow ignited and it was essentially as if Holloway was “holding a bottle rocket in his mouth,” the station reported.

According to the firemen, due to the explosion it’s impossible to tell what brand electronic cigarette the battery was.

This report was found on www.orlandosentinel.com.

The weartv.com report is here:

http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_20551.shtml