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    Disposable vapes ban: a lot of hot air or a slow-burn success?
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    Disposable vapes ban: a lot of hot air or a slow-burn success?

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    1. High-Tom-Titty on

      I will forever be thankful for vapes helping me quit smoking, however the amount of them I see just thrown on the ground, I reckon I could have made a power bank for my house if I saved them all up.

    3. Old_Pomegranate_822 on

      > “I even sit in bed vaping,” she added. “I think they need to put warning signs like what they do on cigarette packets with the lungs.
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      > “You don’t really know what vaping is doing to your insides.”

      I can’t help thinking maybe she should… do some research or try to reduce it if she has those concerns. 

    4. Dangerwow on

      I work at a vape shop- people are forced into buying prefilled pods, or going for the cheaper option by far which is filling themselves. It’s about a 50-50 split for the response to the ban.

      The great thing about if people choose the latter is we can work on bringing their nicotine strength down. Slowly turning it into more habit than chemical addiction.

    5. Mccobsta on

      I deal with a lot of kids vaping at my bus stop and I thought the law coming it would atleast make the endless litter slow down

      But it hasn’t it just seems they’re going to dodgy shops or buying them online from shops that don’t give a toss

      Its such a mess

    6. willywam on

      My experience as a former addict who has vaped for a few weeks since the ban came in (fell off the bandwagon at Glastonbury) before kicking again.

      The reusable vapes by the main former disposal brands (e.g. Lost Mary, Elfbar) are the same size, shape, capacity and price as the disposable ones were, so one can choose to continue buying, using and disposing vapes in a exactly the same way as before with no impact.

      However, they now also sell pods that are significantly cheaper than a whole new vape, so it’s made it easier to not throw away quite so much, and slightly cheaper overall to vape with these brands.

      So probably a slight improvement overall, but not as big an impact as one would hope.

    7. ninjabannana69 on

      The only thing thats changed is the people buying disposables are now buying the ones where only the tank and coil are disposable. So rather than a full ecig being thrown there just throwing then pods and keeping the batteries. Not to mention all the corner shops selling them under counter.

    8. YeOldeGeek on

      I manage a vape shop (a legit one!), and see the move as a success. Think about it, if everyone who buys one of the newer devices with a USB recharging port recharges it just *once*, that reduces the number of batteries being discarded by 50%. And in my experience, a high % of customers have switched to more permanent, better quality devices – where the batteries are typically good for 300-400 charges.

      Now the authorities need to clamp down on the dodgy corner shops and market sellers who are still flogging off the old disposable stock.

    9. AlexxelA352 on

      The ban has helped with waste but it has not had an effect on people vaping. The reason that they’re finding less on the street is because they’re refillable now so people aren’t just throwing them away. If the government actually wants to help with this vaping epidemic, they’re going to have to restrict how they are presented and marketed.

    10. machinehead332 on

      All they’ve done is add a charging port and the ability to refill these vapes. People still treat them as disposable, my other half certainly does.