You know… maybe getting addicted to nicotine isn’t such a clever idea on the first place?!?!
Single-use vapes should be illegal for waste reasons alone.
Yep. These single use vapes basically ruined the whole ecig industry…
Yes - I was upset enough by throwing away the whole atomiser, never mind the whole device, battery, circuit boards and everything.
I use rebuildable atomisers now, so my e-cig waste is down to a 5cm bit of metal wire and a 4cm bit of cotton fluff every few weeks.
There was no reason for the disposable ones to ever exist.
I think drop in coils are a reasonable compromise between convenience/waste - the waste isn’t very much and the coils I use last me a good long while (I vape MTL though so a coil can sometimes last me 2 months)
And then you have the dumb fucks in Canada that have banned RTAs so you can’t even buy cotton or wire in vape shops anymore. Have to order it online to keep my old RTA supplied.
Did you know that, in the UK, every year, there is enough lithium in all the disposable vapes that are used, to make 1200 electric car batteries?
I do hope this works to stop kids developing/continuing nic habits. Environmental reasons as well of course but really ever since juul came out teen vaping has been ignored instead of dealt with.
However, I can’t help but think of the days at my school of us smoking and hope kids won’t just take that up instead - luckily it costs a bomb these days so they probably can’t afford it (no idea what disposables cost but guessing not as expensive as proper cigarettes!)
As much as I hate disposable vapes I don’t believe they should be banned as long as cigarettes are not.
One will fall back tonthe other if ine is banned.
I do wish they both get banned as they are polluting the earth and damaging health for no good reasons.
Disclaimer I am Canadian and do vape (refillable vape mod) I used to smoke up to 50 cigarettes a day. I wish I was capable of stopping vape now but it’s hard.
I definitely agree with you about not making it attractive to kids. But vaping has increased by less than smoking has decreased. Kids who would otherwise experiment with cigarettes use vapes instead. Kids who got hooked on smoking use vapes to quit.
It’s not an easy balance to strike. I’m not saying we should encourage kids to vape! But it’s important not to lose sight of the prize. It’s a much better option than smoking, and less addictive too.
For the avoidance of doubt, of course disposables should be banned. On environmental grounds alone but also because they’re designed and marketed as impulse purchases for kids.
Kids who got hooked on smoking use vapes to quit.
I’m not so sure about this. I don’t have any sources but anecdotally it seems like a lot of kids have leaped into vaping without having ever smoked and have got nicotine habits. It began whenever Juul started marketing themselves as wanting to be the ‘ipod of vaping’ long ago and specifically targeted young people in the advertising despite what they might have said
Before then it wasn’t a thing - it was adults who had found a way to stop smoking and were being left to do it in peace. I’ll be proper annoyed if all this leads to me not being able to vape anymore because nothing else worked stopping me smoking. It’s the lesser of two evils by a very long shot.
Imo you should have responsible licensed vape shops that sell these things, and I’d be fine with plain packaging - most of the stuff I get is pretty much in plain packaging already from vpz.
But if they ban disposables there’s going to be an opening for a black market for dodgy stuff full of even more rubbish. Frankly, they should have done something about this a long time ago
