• qooqie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What about the whole disposable cigarettes that are fucking litter all over the city? Or the disposable cigarette industry responsible for probably millions of deaths at this point.

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      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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        1 year ago

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

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          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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            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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      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…

      Edit - I do know that the tobacco industry owns a lot of the disposable ecigs as well