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waitrose bans single use...

Good for them lets hope more follow their lead. My local Morrisons have just put in a new display in the main shopping area and it's full of nothing but disposables!! I complained to the manager and asked if there was a recycle bin for them which of course there isn't. I hate them with a vengance!!

Same as that, by the checkouts, massive display.
 
They're stopping sales of disposables based on claims of wanting to reduce harm to youths but still selling tobacco.
Cigarettes do more damage to health so why not stop selling those too.

I hate disposables because of how wasteful they are and for the bad reputation they bring to the vape industry as a whole, so I am glad waitrose is not selling them.

but I don't see it making much,if any, difference at all. It seems like a half measure to try and convince people that they give a crap.

Does anyone even buy vapes from supermarkets anyway? My local Co op has a stand for disposables and eliquid that is so laughably unnoticed it's dusty.

Teenagers who use disposables are buying them either online or from small corner shops and the like, it should be up to the parents to stop them.

The less people are focused on this youth vaping crap the more energy can be spent on hating disposables for the right reasons lol.
Supermarkets and the like are often the first contact for a new vaper - i know boots was mine, only went in for some paracetamol.
 
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baffled me there briefly, I'm like wtf has lime got to do with it, then realised it was like, makes more sense now, as you were...
 
Supermarkets and the lime are often the first contact for a new vaper - i know boots was mine, only went in for some paracetamol.
Fair point, but a teenager is less likely to get away with buying a vape from a supermarket.

The way I see it they're applying burn cream to a broken leg, I mean it's not going to do any harm and they are certainly going to act like they're single handedly saving the youths of the world from the dangers of giving up smoking.
but realistically all they will do is prevent the occasional adult smoker from being able to look at a disposable while they're waiting to pay for their shopping and think to themselves "hmm maybe blueberry blast will smell better on my breath than the arse end of an ashtray"
 
I think pubs would be good places to sell them if the pub allows vaping.
Pissing it down with rain and run out of cigs so either put about £15 in a vending machine for half a pack of fags then go stand outside in the rain.
Or say to the barman ill try one of them vape things for a fiver and sit in the dry warm pub.
Maybe they wont like it but still prefer it than getting wet and cold so just use while at the pub. Or maybe they will like it and decide to switch to vaping regular and move on to better kits overtime.
 
This all reminds me of the thread I started a few months ago, is it really the supermakets job to gatekeep vaping? Yeah, I know, environment and waste, batteries etc.... we've done it to death, but the cost of these single-use things during a cost of living crisis, they'll put themselves out the game....
 
Fair point, but a teenager is less likely to get away with buying a vape from a supermarket.

The way I see it they're applying burn cream to a broken leg, I mean it's not going to do any harm and they are certainly going to act like they're single handedly saving the youths of the world from the dangers of giving up smoking.
but realistically all they will do is prevent the occasional adult smoker from being able to look at a disposable while they're waiting to pay for their shopping and think to themselves "hmm maybe blueberry blast will smell better on my breath than the arse end of an ashtray"

i don’t think they are just talking about teenagers. there are loads of youngsters round this way that puff disposables. students, and old enough to buy them legally, but i doubt they were all addicted smokers before they started.
 
baffled me there briefly, I'm like wtf has lime got to do with it, then realised it was like, makes more sense now, as you were...
Frigging Autoincorrect
 
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