Not rapists and thugs on the police force? Not being homeless? Not a poorly managed and maintained business friendly town centres? Not zero footfall because of terrible public transport, overpriced private parking, no disposable income, overpriced property, over zealous parking inspectors and congestion zones? Not those annoying survey people that follow you around? Not places like Brighthouse selling goods on credit for 3 times what it actually costs? Not bookies every third shop?
I always thought violence was the biggest threat ….. but what do I know.
Classic BBC hyperbole. Biggest threat to what? why?
When was a teenager we’d be smoking because we were bored and must thought it looked cool.
If vaping the worst of it then authorities should be counging the blessings.
That’s what you get when you wanna ban something/put restrictions on.if smoking was left alone they’re wouldn’t be vapes. Tax the shit outta things and fakes will be rife. It’s not a taste or colour that makes a kid smoke as they would also smoke a cig if it wasn’t so expensive. Dnt just blame it on vapes.
Read the article before commenting. Honestly, the headline is accurate enough but I can see why it might confuse people.
Illegal vapes are biggest threat *ON* High Street. NOT a threat TO High Street. Illegal vapes is a threat originating ON high street TO rest of the society.
Edit: spelling
>But some shops are selling vapes containing 12,000 puffs of e-liquid, when the law permits only about 600. Others contain illegally high levels of nicotine.
Seems strange when I can’t buy less than 30g of tobacco i.e. there’s a minimum, not a maximum.
biggest threat to whom? the government because they don’t get the tax money? they certainly aren’t the biggest threat to the public.
The ‘threats’ they’re listing there aren’t actually the dangerous ones, they’re just holdovers from the TPD the EU brought in, one of the few things I was hoping we’d actually ditch once we “took back control”.
Both the 2ml tank size and the 10ml refill bottles are completely pointless and are bypassed anyway, all they do is drive up the price. Many tanks come in 2ml but with a 5ml extender and depending on where you buy your nicotine from you just get a lot of little bottles instead of the big ones you used to get.
The actual issue is that unregulated products can be produced with unsafe *materials*. Atomizers and e-liquids being made with elements that aren’t safe for vaping or contain toxic elements and knockoff batteries that pose an actual fire risk.
I do wonder if that’s what was happening with the girl in question, while I’m not expert on this stuff nosebleeds aren’t something I recognise as a side-effect of vaping, even if you do overdo it with the nicotine.
Reading some of the related articles this all seems incredibly disingenuous, how many ‘puffs’ you get out of it has no bearing on the safety of the device, it just means the one you have will run out sooner and you’ll have to spend more to get another one. That’s it.
Along with tobacco, alcohol and energy drinks.
But, there you go, it’s your money, your life, you choose how to fuck your body up.
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Not rapists and thugs on the police force? Not being homeless? Not a poorly managed and maintained business friendly town centres? Not zero footfall because of terrible public transport, overpriced private parking, no disposable income, overpriced property, over zealous parking inspectors and congestion zones? Not those annoying survey people that follow you around? Not places like Brighthouse selling goods on credit for 3 times what it actually costs? Not bookies every third shop?
I always thought violence was the biggest threat ….. but what do I know.
Classic BBC hyperbole. Biggest threat to what? why?
When was a teenager we’d be smoking because we were bored and must thought it looked cool.
If vaping the worst of it then authorities should be counging the blessings.
That’s what you get when you wanna ban something/put restrictions on.if smoking was left alone they’re wouldn’t be vapes. Tax the shit outta things and fakes will be rife. It’s not a taste or colour that makes a kid smoke as they would also smoke a cig if it wasn’t so expensive. Dnt just blame it on vapes.
Read the article before commenting. Honestly, the headline is accurate enough but I can see why it might confuse people.
Illegal vapes are biggest threat *ON* High Street. NOT a threat TO High Street. Illegal vapes is a threat originating ON high street TO rest of the society.
Edit: spelling
>But some shops are selling vapes containing 12,000 puffs of e-liquid, when the law permits only about 600. Others contain illegally high levels of nicotine.
Seems strange when I can’t buy less than 30g of tobacco i.e. there’s a minimum, not a maximum.
biggest threat to whom? the government because they don’t get the tax money? they certainly aren’t the biggest threat to the public.
The ‘threats’ they’re listing there aren’t actually the dangerous ones, they’re just holdovers from the TPD the EU brought in, one of the few things I was hoping we’d actually ditch once we “took back control”.
Both the 2ml tank size and the 10ml refill bottles are completely pointless and are bypassed anyway, all they do is drive up the price. Many tanks come in 2ml but with a 5ml extender and depending on where you buy your nicotine from you just get a lot of little bottles instead of the big ones you used to get.
The actual issue is that unregulated products can be produced with unsafe *materials*. Atomizers and e-liquids being made with elements that aren’t safe for vaping or contain toxic elements and knockoff batteries that pose an actual fire risk.
I do wonder if that’s what was happening with the girl in question, while I’m not expert on this stuff nosebleeds aren’t something I recognise as a side-effect of vaping, even if you do overdo it with the nicotine.
Reading some of the related articles this all seems incredibly disingenuous, how many ‘puffs’ you get out of it has no bearing on the safety of the device, it just means the one you have will run out sooner and you’ll have to spend more to get another one. That’s it.
Along with tobacco, alcohol and energy drinks.
But, there you go, it’s your money, your life, you choose how to fuck your body up.