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Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’ (www.vice.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’::The New Zealand-based seller issued a notice to its Australian customers that shipments will continue regardless of the government's vape reform.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I’m willing to go to war against this vape seller.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I was just wondering in my pea sized brain how making things illegal in the past has worked out.. hrrmmm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Your brain is pea sized indeed, because any nominal amount of wondering should make you realize it has to be taken on a case by case basis. Otherwise we should just make everything legal, no?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The real question here is, are there (mostly) harmless?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They are an excellent and well understood harm reduction measure compared with smoking.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

There's an even better harm reduction measure: not smoking at all.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (5 children)

They fill landfills with descartable batteries, causing a lot of contamination. This is not the reason they're being banned, but it should be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's only true for disposable vapes tho and I think a Pfand system, like we have for plastic bottles in Germany, would be a way better idea. People are already illegaly shipping them in from China, banning them won't stop that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

That's a nonsense nonargument. If the bulk of purchases are already illegal, then there's no harm in banning what is clearly a harmful item.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Good point, I haven't thought of that.

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