If though in time if it's proven that disposables get folks off the fags, then they will be here to stay, granted with hopefully better restrictions...of enforcement of sale outlets.
I also would have thought that POTV would have been in a great position to collate the positive and negatives of disposables and perhaps have some influence on the future of these products rather than adopting a ban stance, where members are telling people there is no elf in here.
All I seem to see is negative posts of teens using disposables.....but if no positives of adults using them are allowed....then to my mind this is bias and unhelpful to the industry as a whole.
I hear you - i get your opinion. I hear it i do. You may have a point.
For me personally though, I can see no positives (my opinion)
we were getting people off the fags perfectly well in the shop with simple inexpensive non disposable POD systems, the easier to switch argument doesn't really wash with me, through experience. Tho that line gets used on us all the time by distros trying to flog us them.
I have been chatting to a couple of shop owners recently who are taking the same stance and offering reusable alternatives instead and not stocking them, i think this is a positive stwp.
I just dont personally see a place for single use plastics anymore, in areas where there are alternatives, given what we know about the environmental damage caused by single use items.
this sort of change has to start somewhere.
someone (an old user on here actually) - whos not been around for years described them to me on the phone the other day as “environmentally violent”, which i thought was a great description.
i feel the same about fake plastic grass and flowers as well, if it helps, especially so actually as we need more real vegetation - not plastic replacements.
That coupled with the litter and blatant teenage vaping, i honestly think they are the most industry damaging thing to have come out in vaping history.
My company would undoubtably be in a much better and far less tenuous position as a company than we are now if we sold them. I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
As far as the site goes, i dont think we need to show a balanced outlook on them, positive info about them is available literally everywhere, they are emblazoned on everything. And this is a hobbyists site more than anything.
if you take all the info thats out there selling them as a good thing, then view our one little corner of the web saying - hang on, these are freaking awful because this.
that kind of is balanced in terms of info available to everyone.
