From The Daily Mail:
E-cigarettes designed to help people quit smoking could act as a 'gateway' to addiction to illegal drugs, scientists have today warned. Like conventional cigarettes, the devices are said to raise the risk of addiction to banned substances including cannabis and cocaine.
Once users have become accustomed to purchasing banned substances, they will inevitably abandon their jobs, studies and families and become dealers themselves. This in turn will lead to an economic slump and an increase in gun-ownership and violent crime as well as more acquisitive crimes being committed by addicts to feed their habits.
The research also found that as most terrorist organisations fund themselves by smuggling and selling weapons and drugs, they will become ever more powerful and wrest control of failing states, which will trigger small scale wars all over the globe which will eventually coalesce into a global struggle for survival.
Scientists concluded that taking that first puff on an e-cigarette is only the first step to being beheaded by Islamic militants or all-out nuclear warfare.
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the married couple from Columbia University, New York, warned: "E-cigarettes will almost certainly lead to the end of the world as we know it and cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum and destroy the entire universe.
"Granted, that's a worse case scenario.
"The destruction might in fact be very localised, limited to merely our own galaxy."
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