Despite being guilty of using them for their convenience, I’d like to see single-use vapes banned in the US. The lithium, gold, and indium used is better off elsewhere and the plastic bodies pollute forever.
Nicola White, @tidelineart on the bad place, has noted that old school clay pipes (that she is renowned for finding on the Thames foreshore), were the vapes of their day, though less ecologically destructive.
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I tend to pick them up , and dismantle them ... and on the whole the battery inside will be a good'un but in need of a charge... then they are good to be re-used
I don't understand why the nhs is still endorsing vapes as a legitimate way to quit smoking. We have no idea if they are less harmful than cigarettes, and the negative environmental impact is huge. They also stink.
When I walk my dog along the verge red bull cans and miniature wine bottles are the most discarded items I pick up. Shall we ban those harmful products.
Hold on. 68M people in UK. 12% over 18 smoke/vape. That would mean roughly _every_ single one of those 6.4M persons smoking has to dispose of at least one vape every week to make that statistic happen. Something doesn't add up.
Same 2022 survey by Opinium found 18% of 4,000 people surveyed bought a vape in previous year, with 7% buying a single-use device. Office for National Statistics data from 2020 found that 6.4% of people in the UK vape. So half those smokers are throwing away 2-3 vapes a week? Still something off.
Ban them outright. It was clear from the beginning that these products were designed to keep people addicted to nicotine and to create a new delivery system that circumvented existing restrictions on tobacco sales, ultimately recruiting a new generation of addicts.
Yep. I felt a little cruel laughing in the face of people who proudly said they'd taken to vaping as a move to stop smoking. As though the nicotine industry would spend all that money to develop a way for you to stop using their drug.
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