Think you can losing body parts to cancer, because you switched to one of those fancy new E-Cigs?  Sure!  But now you can enjoy losing all of the parts on your face from an explosion that's very possible with the battery operated device.

An American smoker who quit tobacco by switching to vapour inhaling E cigarettes was this week recovering in hospital after the battery operated substitute cigarette exploded in his mouth.

Press reports said Vietnam vet Tom Holloway lost all of his teeth and part of his tongue in the explosion which happened when the device’s battery apparently overheated.

"My husband was smoking an electric cigar,” his wife told WEAR ABC 3 News.

“I don't know if you've ever seen those before but it blew up in his face (sobs) His face is all blown up, he's bleeding,” she added.

Firefighter Chief Butch Parker said the battery inside the e-cigarettte melted, firing molten plastic in all directions.

“It was basically like him holding a bottle rocket in his mouth,” he told reporters (Daily Mail; http://m1e.net/c?136756224-yhNJMkQSgMjF6%407262333-tgK/NwdfvRwo2 )

Describing the incident as a ‘tragedy’, E-Cigarette Retailer V2 Cigs suggested the device may have been modified and spoke of a ‘history of explosions and fires dating back several years due to cheap, unprotected lithium ion batteries’.  Committed E-cigarette enthusiast Oly Grasset from MOTOR who quit tobacco two years ago, told Skrufff he was equally phlegmatic.

“Well I feel sorry for the dude, but batteries do explode sometimes,” he pointed out.

“Whether it's your phone, iPod, laptop PC, MacBook (my MacBookPro battery exploded 2 years ago but I didn't loose any teeth, lucky me!) or your battery car (it can literally disfigure you since it's full of sulphuric acid!!) well, you name it, anything with a battery could send you to a hospital,” said Oly . . . (CLICK HERE FOR MORE: http://m1e.net/c?136756224-Hi51bPQkvxVt.%407262334-g10PZdufesW8c )

… Just in time for Earth Day, Brushfire Records will release Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival on April 17^th. The album features a 13-track compilation of live performances from Jack Johnson’s benefit concert for the Kokua Hawaii Foundation. In support of the release, Johnson will also tour the Hawaiian Islands for an intimate seven-date all acoustic tour. Proceeds from Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival and the tour will benefit the Kokua Hawaii Foundation.

After the album’s release, Johnson will head out with John Cruz and Paula Fuga for a seven-date, all-acoustic tour of Hawaii. The tour will include stops on Kauai (April 19 at Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center), Oahu (April 21 and 22 at Hawaii Theatre), Maui (April 25 and 26 at Castle Theater), and the Big Island (April 28 and 29 at Kahilu Theatre).  

Culled from six years of his eco-minded music festival, Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival, highlights onstage collaborations with legendary musicians like Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, Dave Mathews, Ziggy and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and more.

Johnson and his band team up with more than a dozen guest artists to perform both original works and spirited covers of classic songs. The album features several of Johnson’s breezy folk-rock gems, including “Constellations” (with Eddie Vedder), “Mudfootball” (with Ozomatli & G. Love), “Breakdown” (with ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro), and “Better Together” (with Hawaiian singer Paula Fuga).

Elsewhere on Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival, Johnson joins his guests for stripped-down renditions of their own songs: Taj Mahal offers his bluesy “Further On Down The Road,” Jackson Browne revisits “Take It Easy” with the help of singer/guitarist John Cruz (who also shares his Hawaiian anthem “Island Style”), and the Marley brothers bring the reggae with Ziggy’s “Cry, Cry, Cry” and Damian’s dancehall banger “Welcome to Jamrock.”

Rounding out the record are an eclectic collection of covers, including Bob Marley’s “High Tide or Low Tide” (featuring Ben Harper), Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” (featuring Eddie Vedder) and Jimmy Buffet’s “A Pirate Looks at Forty” (featuring Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds). Willie Nelson, meanwhile, delivers a Harper-assisted take on “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” the Fred Rose-penned classic he popularized.

Held on Earth Day weekend at Honolulu’s Waikiki Shell since its inception in 2004, the Kokua Festival serves as both a community-centered celebration of music and environmental awareness and as the major fundraiser for the Kokua Hawaii Foundation (a nonprofit organization founded by Johnson and his wife Kim in 2003 to support environmental education in the schools and communities of Hawaii). Like the festival itself, Jack Johnson and Friends - Best of Kokua Festival spotlights artists who share the Kokua Hawaii Foundation’s mission of protecting the planet and cultivating environmental consciousness.

Not only a showcase for live music, the Kokua Festival offers a major educational component. A clearinghouse of over fifty eco-friendly businesses and local environmental groups interact with fans in the Kokua Village, which features sustainable products, alternative-energy demonstrations, local food and beverages, and activities for kids.

As a leader in low-impact concert production, the Kokua Festival also reduces energy use and minimizes waste through a number of green measures, including:

• a bike valet service

• biodegradable concession-ware

• zero-waste stations for recyclables, compostables, and food waste