PieFed.WorldDisposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes
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As someone that switched to vaping after 15 years of smoking, I hate everything about disposable vapes and I'm honestly not surprised that these things are worse. From what I can tell they are barely regulated where I live and nobody that uses them even care what's inside besides the nicotine they want. I still do it the old school way with a device that can actually refill and change our coils, but almost everyone I know has switched to disposables because they are "easier."
Nowadays, disposable vapes are so prevalent that I'm finding them in all the places that used to be littered with cigarette butts. The side of the road, camping grounds, parking lots, and public trash cans. My whole life I was taught to dispose of batteries properly, but I guess if you can't see them it doesn't count. Now there are lithium batteries littered all over public spaces housed in cheap plastic cases just waiting to cause environmental damage and potentially fires.
Isn't the title misleading? The e-cigarettes have more of these particular toxins but they're still far less toxic overall.
In short: They're not "disposable".
It's like "flushable wet wipes", the manufacturers are basically lying. In that you can dispose of them just like you can technically flush the wipes. But it is bad to do so.
This is why disposables are now banned in the UK
I thought a pod was a component of some vapes (reusable or prefilled) not another name for a disposable?
There has always been horrible reporting by the media when it comes to the vape industry. I'm interpreting that caption written like that to subconsciously influence perception of anything 'pod' to be bad. Years ago when I still vaped, I can't remember how many people would tell me about how I was messing up my lungs and going to get popcorn lung when all media was reporting about those illegal weed vapes filled with vitamin e oil. I blame big tobacco for all these hit pieces..
Now talking about these cheap disposable vapes, I for one think they should be banned as they are all super wasteful with all that plastic and lithium batteries while who knows what is in them.
Fucking popcorn lung, I had fuck loads of people trying to tell me that and it was always specifically the flavour I was using that was bad for you... Did many people actually get it from black market vapes? Or were they being idiots and trying to make their own from an online recipe from some random forum.
I remember reading articles about the people ending up with bad pneumonia from those black market weed vapes because they were vaping actual oil, which coating your lungs is deadly. I don't think anyone actually got popcorn lung, which was from the diacetyl in the custard flavored vapes. The history of that was from using that chemical in the fake butter popcorn factories, hence popcorn lung. It was a buzzword they loved throwing around to try and get people off the deadly vapes. Those days are behind me now, they helped me and countless friends off the real smokes.