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I used to cringe when I’d see cigarette butts in the sand at the beach….now there’s just as many dead vapes. Fuckin earth is an ewasteland now.
Nicotine should be illegal everywhere
I wish the US would do the same. I have no issue with vapes, but the single use ones are discarded all over the streets. People don’t do that with their reusable ones.
Black market here we come baby.
um nicotine disposable vapes are already illegal to sell in Australia and have been for years
Next thing you tell me they’re gonna ban guns
You don’t know much about Australia, do you?
Any new disposable products not already produced should only be allowed under licence. Then crap like these wouldn’t make it past the starting line. Once that is done, go back and look at other disposable products and get rid of any but essential items.
In the meanwhile belgium just want to earn taxes on the liquids, but pollution we dont mind….
Yeh sick of finding them in the local streams and rivers especially when there’s a bin 100m from it
I usually stop by the liquor store after work and grab two pints of beer. There is always somebody in front of my buying 4-6 of these at $20 each.
I’m not judging, I just thought getting two pints was eating into my budget. I can’t imagine buying $100 worth of vapes every other week.
They should ban flavored alcohol too while they’re at it. Like as if that stuff doesn’t target children and it’s everywhere.
TIL adults hate flavours 🙄
They need to do this in the UK too.
Next should be any flavoured vape liquid.
Honestly, smoking should taste like shit, vaping should taste like shit and anything that encourages or makes it more attractive should be illegal.
There is no safe level of smoking, even if you’re fine with the risk to yourself it puts undue strain on health and social care systems which affects everybody.
You’re right. We need to ban alcohol and fried foods too because they are a burden on the taxpayer.
There is definitely a false equivalence there. There are safe and non addictive levels of both of those substances. That is not true of nicotine, or it is and it is so small as to not be a realistic level.
There should be more help and investment to get people out of chronic and unhealthy relationships with food and alcohol. Maybe going as far as legally compulsory programs for people to stop them becoming a drain on programs which takes services away from those who’s issues are not ultimately self imposed. However a total ban would be heavy handed.
Nanny state.
Yeah, that’s what nanny’s are needed for. To make sure kids pick up after themselves and don’t throw their trash on the streets.
As a former smoker. Maybe people should stop smoking.
TIL: these things are illegal in the US
“Disposable, flavored vapes are not supposed to be sold in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration began cracking down on vaping in 2020, by requiring e-cigarettes get regulatory approval in order to sell. To date, the agency has authorized only 23 specific e-cigarette products, all of which are tobacco-flavored alternatives to cigarettes, targeted at adults.
Yet illegal products — most notably the disposable and flavored vapes that are most popular among youth and young adults — remain widely available, online and in stores.”
Damn I saw a whole ass vending machine for these elf vapes and shit at a bar in Texas. If they’re illegal, you coulda fooled me
The worst part about disposables (besides the pollution part) is the scam that they are. They usually run between $12 to $20. They aren’t worth a fraction of that. Hell, juice by itself is a scam.
I’ve been making my own juice for a couple years and putting it in a refillable. I spent about $250 3 years ago to begin making my own juice. I still have those same original ingredients. 1 liter of nicotine liquid and a liter of cutting liquid (PG). I have syringes and bottles and all that shit. Im hellishly addicted to nicotine and chain vape all day (work from home makes it easy). $250 has given me over 3 years of vape juice.
An average bottle of juice costs about $20 from a shop. Those are worth $3 at the absolute most. Ejuice is dirt fucking cheap to make and replaceable coils are cheap. A pack of 4 coils costs me $20 and lasts about 5 months. 5 months of a refillable is the cost of 1 disposable. The fact that disposables are popular enough to have vending machines is beyond me. Its a bigger scam than movie theater snacks and people are just okay with it. Yeah, you shouldn’t vape ideally but if you’re going to, don’t get willingly ripped off.
Please quit, I know it’s not easy but please quit.
I know I should. I’ve known for a long time. My girlfriends new years resolution is to get in better shape and I told her I’d do it with her to keep her accountable. I might use that as an opportunity to try and kick it myself. Cant get in good cardio if my lungs are fucked. But thats easier said than done. We shall see how it goes.
at least he’s vaping and not smoking, so he’s already decreased his risk by 95% at the least.
vaping is also easier to quit than cigarettes because each bottle of juice you make you can add less and less nicotine until finally you’re at zero and you didn’t even have to deal with any withdrawals.