Can’t upvote this post enough! There was a clear strategy through misleading information and regulation to shove the ecig market to the big players (Tobaco industry). And those big players user that to get the youth hooked in their shitty disposable vapes. It could have been a tool to help many many smokers. But it was enshityfied like everything the big industry lobbies touch.
Comment on UK to ban sale of disposable vapes in response to soaring waste and safety risks
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 1 week ago
Disposables would never have been the problem they are today if it wasnt for the blind regulatory stabs they were taking to “protect the children”. All those regulations banning vape shops and liquid mixing, or sales by mail.
Back in the day, disposable vape shit was a terrible waste of money that was not enticing to anyone. Reasonable devices that didnt waste massive amounts of batteries or plastic were the norm. You would just change coils. The US government basically banned that from existing and let the disposables run wild. So now instead of buying and tossing a small bit of metal and cotton every once and a while, you buy and toss the entire fucking device. Its one of the most clear cut modern examples of poorly thought out regulation making a problem infinitely worse in every way than it ever originally was.
Only people with motivation to quit cigs and people who nerd out about gear were ever gonna keep using the old style vapes. Everyone else might hit it and quit it eventually. Now the disposables have hooked an entire generation of kids because they arent such a pain in the ass to use or procure
Ekpu@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Very succinct. Agreed this is exactly what’s happening. And in a few dozen years we’re going to be destroying some new habitat for more copper and lithium mines, partially due to our failures to properly re-use stuff.
Psythik@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I hate that the disposables are so much better than the old method too. You get the perfect hit every time. This is true for both nicotine and weed vapes. They need to be banned. They’re too good for how wasteful they are.