The sale of disposable vapes will be banned in the United Kingdom from Sunday, as the country becomes the latest to tackle the “environmental nightmare” of the single-use devices. However, some campaigners warn that the new restrictions are just “a drop in the ocean” in the war against plastic waste.
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As a filthy vape user / hey at least I don’t smoke cigarettes anymore:
Fucking good.
Disposables are an environmental nightmare, you can get a similarly sized, refillable vape for maybe twice the cost of one single use pod, but then after that you’re only replacing pod+coils and refilling with juice you can buy as well.
Doing it that way is cheaper in the longrun for a vaper, is at least better for the environment, and also makes it so its probably more trouble than its worth for every small shop to stock a set of reusable vapes and pods and juice… which makes it less convenient, now you gotta go to a specialty shop, and making it less convenient for kids to newly get addicted to nicotine is a good fucking thing.
(for the record, no i do not use some insane rig that blows clouds of ‘vape’… i use a roughly 4 inch long vape that barely makes any visible cloud in all but basically film noir detective’s officr lighting conditions)