Rishi Sunak urged to ban disposable vapes amid fears his plans won’t go far enough
Calls for Government to go further and outright ban disposable vapes to protect children
This is the fanatics wanting to ban vapes and using any excuse they can grab hold of to do so.
#Ignore their reasons, it’s their desire that is dangerous. Because, of course, they won’t stop there.
Yep. Any excuse is good enough and even none will do.
The words of Kyle Reese in the original Terminator movie can be applied to so many groups these days – the eco nutters, the health nutters, the moslem nutters etc. etc.etc.:
“It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. And it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead”.
Disposable vapes are one of those quiet little economic success stories.
A few years ago, the industry didn’t even exist. Now it’s a thriving market full of big and small firms, offering an impressively diverse range of little gifts you can buy for yourself for a trivial sum, and offering a lifeline of popular new products to the endangered corner shop.
I don’t like all that flavoured stuff, but millions of people do, they’re not doing any harm, and they do some good for the economy.
Time to ban them and put everyone involved out of business then. That’s what 13 years of Conservative government has bought us.
The high street would be dead if it weren’t for vape shops.
Even the mobile phone repair shops sell them as a side-gig, presumably because the margins on Chinese manufacturer disposable vapes are so huge.
What I don’t appreciate is the litter the disposable vapes seem to create.
The litter is only a problem because we now have one or two generations who’ve been brought up to believe that once you’ve consumed a product, you simply drop the container or wrapper where you stand (or throw it out of the car window). Someone else will clear it up for you. They’re often the very same people who claim to care deeply about the environment.
Yes Chris and I accept it is the individuals that cause the littering rather than the mere existence of the product itself.
I was also impressed by the diligence with which at least some of our local retailers in Perth were implementing the age restriction laws on vapes.
I was in the local mobile phone repair shop getting the battery replaced on my iPhone 5 (I don’t really do new tech) and a pair of obviously underage girls came in and asked for “Juicy Fruit Volcano” or some such nonsense and when the shop owner asked for ID said she didn’t have any but swore blind she was 18 (in truth I’d have put her at 16 max even with the make up and fake eyelashes).
Shopkeeper was polite, but adamant. No proof of age, no vape.
Then again, there’s a £200 fine for selling vapes to children, so I’m sure that helps keep the resellers on their toes.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23605447.shops-across-scotland-fined-selling-vapes-underage-youth/
Good. Maybe I can walk down the street without having to slalom round clouds of sickly smelling vapour.
I think that selling disposable vapes to under 18s should be illegal.
I was accidentally intrigued by the Labour party accidentally implying it should also be an offence by the buyer.
More prisons needed.