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Good on them for cracking down on disposables. Absolute waste of plastics, and leaves completely viable li-ion batteries scattered around in the streets, and cause garbage trucks to catch on fire.
Shit move on restricting flavors, though. I'm an adult, I like fruity flavors, just let me have something that tastes nice. They restricted flavors here in the US, and that did absolutely nothing to mitigate teen vaping.
Flavors are laughably easy to mix in tho and with disposable ban refill culture will rise. Though the danger here is that teens will fuck with the refill process as some flavoring is known to be harmful when vaporized.
Tbh I don't get disposables when refills are so much better and hardly takes any effort. I'm pro vaping but totally agree with disposable ban. It's nasty to create so much unnecessary trash.
My local tobacco shop in the US still carries flavored nicotine juice. I thought only Juul got screwed.
They banned flavored pods. That's why disposables took off. Those are banned now too, but enforcement is basically non-existent at the federal level.
Yeah, you can usually still find decent flavors if you buy bottles of juice, which I need to start doing again. I'd gotten lazy and switched back to a pod device (which I still hate because of the massive amounts of plastics), and the flavor options are very limited.
It's just gonna go underground, look at Australia
As with most restrictions, usage is lower than without. I ended up stopping in Melbourne when I couldn't find nicotine juice.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Announcing the move, Rishi Sunak said: “As any parent or teacher knows, one of the most worrying trends at the moment is the rise in vaping among children, and so we must act before it becomes endemic.”
The move forms part of a wider response to a public consultation on smoking and vaping, which has resulted in plans for some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures, first revealed by the Guardian, including a ban on selling tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health welcomed the announcement, which follows its campaign launched in June to ban disposable e-cigarettes and introduce marketing restrictions.
Dr Mike McKean, a vice-president for policy at the college, said: “Bold action was always needed to curb youth vaping and banning disposables is a meaningful step in the right direction.”
Despite recent research suggesting banning disposables could discourage the use of e-cigarettes among people who are trying to quit smoking, he felt it was the right policy.
The UKVIA is presenting a scheme based on an industry-wide consultation to parliamentarians in February that will set out ways to make it harder for rogue traders to sell to minors.
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I could be wrong but I think a better solution to this would be education. They taught us the dangers of smoking tobacco when I was in school. Why don't we do the same for vapes?
While education helped sure, the real killer was changing smoking from being cool to being a stigma and laws stopping smoking from most public places.
Smoking was changed from being cool to being gross. It makes you smell, it makes kissing you gross, etc etc. Vapes seem to have taken away some of those issues that really pushed the social stigma.
Add to it that nicotine free vapes exist and people use those, so it's not the same singular target as tobacco. What you don't want is something that can be easily debunked making it seem like it's not that bad. (See the many stories of folks trying harder drugs because the DARE programs told them marijuana would be the same as LSD, only it's not).
You make a good point. Never thought of that way.