• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Cigarette butts are bad, yes. However, these disposable vapes are so much worse though: durable plastics, metal and most of all a lithium battery. All those things combine to make something that’s probably 1000x worse for the environment than a cigarette butt, for each vape disposed of.

    And I know people who will go through multiple in a day

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      1 year ago

      Where are you from? The only disposables I’ve been exposed to have been good for ~a week of heavy use. Genuinely curious

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        1 year ago

        I’m in the UK, there’s some that seem to end up dead after half a heavy day in a beer garden.

        I’ll admit the guy I’m thinking of does blast them like a chimney

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          Fair enough, sometimes you get bad ones. I was guilty of using disposables for a little while there and there’d be the odd week where I might have to buy 2 or 3. But it wasn’t frequent. If you’re getting shitfaced and hitting them non-stop (as drunk people do haha) it’s possible to burn the cotton and ruin the flavor too