| ▲ | Quinner 5 hours ago |
| The reason disposables are so popular in the US is the FDA banned any flavored cartridges, which doesn't include disposables. The immense battery waste is a direct result of a relatively new law. |
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| ▲ | walthamstow an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| That doesn't explain why vapes are so rife elsewhere, particularly the UK. They're popular because, as the FT described, they're the ultimate product. Cool, cheap and addictive. https://www.ft.com/content/f72f17e4-a83d-4494-b1e7-a349cc7ae... |
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| ▲ | prmoustache an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The other reason is kids. Kids don't have to hide proof of their consumption in their bedroom (well at least until they are hooked enough they can't spend a night without vaping). They buy, consume and throw away before reaching home. |
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| ▲ | flexagoon 15 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > They buy, consume and throw away before reaching home. That would require a crazy high amount of smoking. AFAIK, disposable vapes usually last about a week. |
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| ▲ | ch4s3 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Good intentions and lack of foresight often combine poorly. |
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| ▲ | lostlogin 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | The fault lies with vape manufacturers. It’s big tobacco. They are soulless ghouls. | | |
| ▲ | tuetuopay an hour ago | parent [-] | | Surprisingly, Big Tobacco does not really likes vapes because it's not them, and eats in their profit margin. If any, they lobby against vapes and specifically disposable vapes. |
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| ▲ | loeg 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The other reason is regulatory arbitrage -- the disposal vapes are often illegal products that circumvent laws in general. |
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| ▲ | tthoou34233423 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I seriously wonder how it's even feasible for these things to be profitable. |
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| ▲ | spankalee 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > FDA banned any flavored cartridges, which doesn't include disposables Wait, what? Where's the sense in that? |
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| ▲ | mikodin 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think just an oversight—disposables weren't really around at the time the time that the ban happened. 2019, people were mostly smoking Juul and having those crazy custom rigs that they fill with the juice. Disposables really started to take off around 2021 - 2022. Atleast that's what I saw with people around me in NY and California. | |
| ▲ | cons0le 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yeah, in my state, with disposable I can get any flavor. But if I want juice or pods, I can only get nasty tobacco flavor. It's an easy choice. Also, when you do get juice online or from other states, it doesn't hit as hard / the same as whatever they put in the disposables. Someone told me it's because the disposables have vitamin E acetate in them that makes the nicotine get absorbed into your blood quicker. I think the disposables go around more regulations, which mean the chinese manufacturers can put more addictive stuff in the pods / disposables. | |
| ▲ | jhanschoo 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If true I wonder if that has to do with this incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_vaping_lung_... | | |
| ▲ | loeg 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It isn't. That was illegal marijuana vapes. The FDA just hates flavored nicotine products because they're appealing (to both adults and children), and the FDA doesn't want nicotine products to be appealing (because nicotine is perceived to be a public health problem on the scale of tobacco). | | |
| ▲ | mjevans 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm kind of in favor of non-persecution OTC at a pharmacy nicotine patches. I hate anything added to the air. Even perfumes irritate and make me sneeze in high quantity. |
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