I used to cringe when I’d see cigarette butts in the sand at the beach….now there’s just as many dead vapes. Fuckin earth is an ewasteland now.
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These things are fucking everywhere. Vapes are thrown all over the streets by cloud chasing tossers.
What about February?
2500mah rechargeable battery - 10 bucks. .6 OHM coils, pack of 5 that lasts 5 months, 25 bucks. Bottle of 120 ml menthol 3mg joice? 50 bucks. Cost on a daily basis? 2.80 a day. A single beer costs as much as that, I bought a nic salt "bar" and it lasted 2 days. A bottle of 120ml 3mg juice lasts 2 weeks, a disposable lasts 2 days.
Would be fine if they didn't also ban nicotine importing. So the only option is to pay $60 for a pack of cigarettes.
Fuck the government, they don't give a shit about us they are just mad they aren't getting money from it, and their cigarette buddies are losing profits
I know vaping has been a thing for a long time now, here in the UK several years back I used to see the occasional person vaping with what looked like a vape they made and put liquid in, no rubbish anywhere around where I live.
Now these past few years, I see hundreds of people vaping with disposables, kids & adults the whole spectrum, along with that all of them thrown on the ground, packets for the vapes everywhere as well. The more placing banning them the better honestly. Hopefully lowers the disgusting smelling clouds that get practically blown in your face as well.
We find some many different to keep polluting our work even though we know we should stop
Nah lets just keep throwing batteries on the fucking floor
I’ve been collecting them and made an electric skateboard out of all the batteries. It hauls ass and is very fun. The motors arn’t too expensive it’s the batteries that cost a lot.
Good on you, just don’t go justifying bad behaviour.
They aren’t?
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Well fuck.
Pack a day smoker over 10 years. Tried to quit many times with gum, patches, etc. Haven't touched a cig in 18 months due to vapes.
And before anyone says, it's harder to get vape fluid and other stuff for non-disposable vapes than it is to get these.
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They should ban flavored alcohol too while they’re at it. Like as if that stuff doesn’t target children and it’s everywhere.
TIL adults hate flavours 🙄
See them dropped everywhere, nearly as bad as all the smokes
In some ways worse. Not to mention they look like toys half the time, and the batteries are still perfectly usable by time the vape is empty so they are incredibly wasteful
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Good - disposable vapes are one of the biggest wastes I've ever seen. Just get a refillable one, jeez.
You can get a decent refillable vape that's very slightly bigger than a disposable one for like €25. It's €9 here for a disposable one, which would last about a day or two. It was about €30 a month for the juice for a refillable one. You'd start seeing savings pretty much immediately. Plus you can add your own level of nicotine, disposable ones have a really high level of nicotine in them too.
The disposable ones also use rechargeable batteries because they're cheap and can deliver the power required.
Discarded vapes are actually a pretty good source for free lithium batteries for hobbyists.
Agree with you BUT you need a prescription to buy just the nicotine juice and hardly anywhere sells just the juice.
They have made basically everything vape wise illegal here, aside from the ‘medical’ product supplied by a company that one of the key anti vape lobbyists is a major shareholder in.
And they’re shit vapes. They don’t work half the time.
I finally quit smoking by vaping and I really don’t want to go back but idk what to do
Honestly as someone who is now 2 months clean of vaping its a lot easier to quit after vaping than it is to go from smokes to not smoking.
I was going through 2 or 3 of the Iget Legend vapes each week before going cold turkey back in September, the cravings were bad for maybe a day, but after that it was manageable with just mints.
To give some more context, I was a 2 pack a day smoker for over a decade before vaping for 5 years so I know what I am talkning about.
You can do it, dont giveup.
What about the agitation? Any time I’ve tried to quit I find myself very easily agitated, and dealing with that plus trying to sort out my anger issues from bipolar was just too much. But if I knew it didn’t last long maybe I could get through it.
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the one advantage of dispos is that they can crank the fuck up on the flavor and ice/menthol which refillables are having a hard time to replicate due to coil life.
which is also why current teens are addicted to vapes, dispos in particular.
Not enough ppl mention this, disposable vape flavors are not only better than most juices I've tried, but the flavor is also way denser. I love icy menthols, and I've tried so hard to match the disposables with what's available in my small town and I just can't.
Luckily they're so much more expensive, so there's no way I'd switch permanently. Just snag once every few months to mix it up
Recently bought a refillable salt nic vape and was pretty bummed by the difference in flavor. I bought a few different flavors but none of them are as satisfying.
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That's why RBAs exist. You've got a refillable vape and a roll of steel wire = endless coils. Takes like 2 minutes to make a new one and they cost fractions of pennies.
You'll get more flavour out of them than any disposable.
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They're already technically prescription only and the bottle shops are full of them lol. I was at my local yesterday and the fella pulled out a shoe box full of imported cigarettes. These things are only useful if enforced and it won't be
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They need to do this in the UK too.
Next should be any flavoured vape liquid.
Honestly, smoking should taste like shit, vaping should taste like shit and anything that encourages or makes it more attractive should be illegal.
There is no safe level of smoking, even if you’re fine with the risk to yourself it puts undue strain on health and social care systems which affects everybody.
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TIL: these things are illegal in the US
“Disposable, flavored vapes are not supposed to be sold in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration began cracking down on vaping in 2020, by requiring e-cigarettes get regulatory approval in order to sell. To date, the agency has authorized only 23 specific e-cigarette products, all of which are tobacco-flavored alternatives to cigarettes, targeted at adults.
Yet illegal products — most notably the disposable and flavored vapes that are most popular among youth and young adults — remain widely available, online and in stores.”
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