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Damage already done. My cousin who vapes switched from Juul to those convient gas station pens where you throw the whole thing, battery included, in the trash once its done. Worse quality, worse for the envrioment, more unknowns in the liquid. The FDAs ban on Juul did nothing but fill the market with worse products they couldn't give a rats ass about because the initial juul ban was bullshit and they knew it. They actively, and I'd wager knowingly, made Americans less safe.
And now that the big tobacco companies have caught up, of course the "free market" can resume
It's a big club. And now thanks to a large stake of Juul being owned by a tobacco company, they're in it.
Definitely. Disposables need to be banned, and everything should have to move to either a refillable or cartridge system. The E-waste alone is a nightmare, not to mention who knows what's in those thousands of brands of sketchy gas station vapes.
As a vaper I support this notion. Disposable vapes should go. Pods with replaceable cartridges and preferably also replaceable batteries (yes, those exist) should take their place. I'm mostly a RBA guy, so my only waste is a bit of cotton, some glycol/glycerin and a bit of wire. Batteries will also need replacing, but not for another few years. Personally I hate pointless waste. Throwing away something that's usable is a sin in my eyes. If you won't use it at least let somebody else use it instead, that includes the perfectly good components in disposables that get thrown away like trash.
I used to vape before I dropped nicotine but like even the pods were problematic enough when it came to environmental issues but hoooly we went in the wrong direction.
I don't even like having to throw away the bottles my juice comes in. I wish I could just take it back for a refill.