This was one of the factors that made me leave the UK, not specifically smoking and vaping but in general, increasingly over-reaching government telling people what they're not allowed to do any more; either by banning it or taxing it so brutally that they might as well.
Here in Indonesia smoking is like it was in the UK 30+ years ago, you can both vape and smoke pretty much wherever you like - sure, not in a supermarket or the queue at the bank but pretty much anywhere you sit and eat or drink and all public areas.
There are a few restaurants, cafes and areas in bars where you can't but that's mainly posh tourist places or where there's a children's play area and other obviously sensible restrictions; but they're all private decisions by individual businesses and thus fair enough - the government don't restrict it at all.
Vaping is pretty big here, generally young folk vape and the old buggers smoke (like chimneys) and while occasionally rumours go around about some proposed ban, it never happens, there's seemingly zero prospect of it actually being restricted, much like tobacco I imagine.
Nevertheless, I keep a good stock of flavours, base and nic... just in case.
I feel sorry for you guys, with the prices going up and up, and potential bans in the offing, and the nanny state in general... get the hell out if/while you can !
Price-wise - 60ml of decent shop-bought liquid is 150,000 / 7.50 quid here - about 1/3rd of that is govt. tax but that's been the same for years, it's not getting more expensive over time.
Whereas a pack of 20 marlboros is about 35,000 (1.75 quid - was under a quid a few years back), a 40g pack of decent tobacco is 26,000 (1.30) - pack of quality papers about 20k, pack of filters I think about the same price as the baccy !!). So it's actually cheaper to smoke roll-ups than vape - and probably similar with pre-made cigarettes depending onhow much you cane one or the other.
I smoke roll-ups though - and it'd be considerably cheaper if I didn't buy premium filters and used papers with no gum... but that's not going to happen!
It's a lot cheaper when you make your own juice though, flavours are cheapish (there are some local manufacturers but most are imported in bulk and then repackaged and sold on in 10/20ml bottles) and PG/VG are super-cheap and nic pretty cheap too.
I guess in the UK they can't ban the batteries, wire or cotton, but might be worth getting a spare mod or two and a replacement RDA or whatever in...
