Comment on France to ban disposable e-cigarettes, PM says

qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cigarette butts are bad, yes. However, these disposable vapes are so much worse though, durable plastics, metal and most of all a lithium battery. All those things combine to make something that’s probably 1000x worse for the environment than a cigarette butt, for each vape disposed of.

  And I know people who will go through multiple in a day

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  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Where are you from? The only disposables I’ve been exposed to have been good for ~a week of heavy use

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m in the UK, there’s some that seem to end up dead after half a heavy day in a beer garden.

      I’ll admit the guy I’m thinking of does blast them like a chimney

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      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fair enough, sometimes you get bad ones. I was guilty of using disposables for a little while there and there’d be the odd week where I might have to buy 2 or 3. But it wasn’t frequent. If you’re getting shitfaced and hitting them non-stop (as drunk people do haha) it’s possible to burn the cotton and ruin the flavor too

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• BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ban those too.

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• HipPriest@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, the ecig 'crisis' is a massive diversion from the money making tobacco industry. Not banning those, hm, can't think why...

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