Jives Miguel Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Couldn't see a thread on this. Scottsh government is to consider banning single use vapes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66718599 I assume that anyone who has walked on a public street and has a set of functioning eyeballs would back this. I'm an occasional vaper myself, who sometimes buys the disposable ones in a pinch, and I back it 100%. I think a combination of the dirty, clatty wee minks who leave the devices and their packaging at their arse, along with the single use, environmental/waste aspect of it makes it a no-brainer really. I think the vaping industry is right up there with the gambling industry in being immoral scum, and have deliberately provoked a massive rise in child/teenage nicotine usage. The amount of school weans you see stoating about with these things is frightening. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted September 6, 2023 Author Share Posted September 6, 2023 Also, just had a scan of the comments on the BBC story PMSl. That's actually him isn't it? A parody of a man 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 (edited) If they ban crisps we riot. Edited September 6, 2023 by Barry Ferguson's Hat 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Theoretically the batteries in the disposable vapes are rechargeable, but by design disposable vapes do not provide the means to recharge the batteries or refill the liquid. Terrible wastage of materials that could and should be reusable. If only someone would invent rechargeable and refillable vapes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMoore Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Obviously you get a lot of mingin smokers but I feel like they're generally speaking aware they're exhaling something that stinks, I get the impression vapers don't realise this and think their fruit flavours smell fine for everyone else, they don't. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 I would make vapes prescription only. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 We're just a clatty nation - it's been said on other threads but capital punishment should be re-introduced for litterers. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Just now, btb said: We're just a clatty nation - it's been said on other threads but capital punishment should be re-introduced for litterers. There will be plenty of posters on here guilty of it. Why won't they admit to it? Probably because they know it's wrong and that they're acting like wee fanny scumbags. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 I hope they do ban single use vapes, I'm actually using one today (made of paper apparently). The only purpose they serve (to me, the main character) is if I forget to have a stock of liquid and run out. The shops used to stock liquid but stopped in favour of the single use ones. Now I live in fear of going to VPZ and being asked endless questions and upsold various things. Get them tae f**k. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 We should reduce taxes on cigarettes to transition people away from harmful vapes. Cigarettes are all organic material, perfectly natural and biodegradable. Plant based. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 1 minute ago, ICTChris said: We should reduce taxes on cigarettes to transition people away from harmful vapes. Cigarettes are all organic material, perfectly natural and biodegradable. Plant based. Reminds me of an old Viz top tip that said cigarettes are a cheaper and more widely available alternative to nicotine patches. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamamafegan Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Totally in favour of this. I hate vapes. We shouldn’t stop there though, we should banning as many single use items as we can. Transitioning to a societal way of thinking where we reuse things or at least use things that are 100% recyclable is the right way forward. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 22 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: You've clearly never experienced the joy of throwing litter out of a car window while the car is in motion. I feel sorry for you. I really do. I live within hearing distance of Somerset Park so I'll give it a go next time I'm driving past - even if you have deleted the post! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMoore Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Another thing that annoys me about vapers is I always get stuck behind them in the wee shop I go to, there seems to be a million and one different flavours and names, (like weed dealers that just make up shite and combine names to appeal to folk - Ultra Alien Blue Dawg Cherry Haze type beat.) It always ends up with "What flavour you after?" "What have you got?" * Cue 5 minutes of them reading out every known variant and flavour known to man only for the person to go with the first one they said. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 2 minutes ago, btb said: I live within hearing distance of Somerset Park so I'll give it a go next time I'm driving past - even if you have deleted the post! I was joking but then thought people might think I'm being serious so deleted it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeperDee Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Just get the police to fine folk who leave them at their arse; I order mine in bulk online and keep them in my house, no reason for me to lose out because minks don't have any sense of respect for the environment. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanetti Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 The number of people I know who never smoked before these became widely available, or did at some point but managed to chuck it altogether, is absolutely wild. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 20 minutes ago, SweeperDee said: Just get the police to fine folk who leave them at their arse; I order mine in bulk online and keep them in my house, no reason for me to lose out because minks don't have any sense of respect for the environment. Not sure if serious 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jives Miguel Posted September 6, 2023 Author Share Posted September 6, 2023 19 minutes ago, SweeperDee said: Just get the police to fine folk who leave them at their arse; I order mine in bulk online and keep them in my house, no reason for me to lose out because minks don't have any sense of respect for the environment. Why don't you get a refillable one? It would save you money. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Wilkos Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 "I don't like it, so it should be banned." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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