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They may look like travel shampoo bottles and smell like bubblegum, but after a few hundred puffs, some disposable, electronic cigarettes and vape pods release higher amounts of toxic metals than older e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. For example, one of the disposable e-cigarettes studied released more lead during a day’s use than nearly 20 packs of traditional cigarettes.

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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

YOU HEARD'EM FOLKS! GO GET YOUR CIGARETTES!

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

All they had to do was keep it quiet for 15 years until the new generation was addicted.

Remember when e-cigarettes looked like cigarettes, and were for a brief time allowed to be smoked indoors in public? That's how it started, we were told they were completely healthy, and a way to "kick the habit", because it's "just a habit", not one of the strongest addictions you'll ever encounter, according to the people who make millions off of it.

[–] elfin8er@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Esco Bar, Flum Pebble, and ELF Bar for anyone curious.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 100 points 1 week ago (36 children)

The three "brands" they tested are all from the same outfit, who most certainly sources them all from the same sweatshop in China. This does not apply to all disposables by any stretch. There's plenty of better reasons to dunk on disposables.

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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

IT'S A NATURAL PLANT

lol

[–] Plurrbear@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

**PROMOTED BY THE “MAD MEN” AT LUCKY STRIKE!

Just have a cocktail and smoke a cig, it’s better than weed and ecigs! How dare you switch because of rat poison found in our cigs and how the RICH banded hemp due to lobbying by the paper people… not due to anything else! Cool!

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 58 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I can’t fathom how they’re legal. Disposable e cigarettes? The waste is insane, and the people using then aren’t properly disposing of them either..

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There needs to be a $20 deposit on them that you get back when you turn in the empty vape.

Or, hot take, make vapes you can refill.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are ones you can refill, the disposable ones should just be banned altogether.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

The ones you could refill were the only game in town at the beginning, only thing I ever used. Need to get back on flower for weed but the cartridges are super convenient, at least they don’t have batteries(I know there are disposable weed vapes, not the same as the cartridges)

[–] only_in_ohio@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

This. So much effort being put into regulating zero-waste bags and attached bottle cups yet those vapes fly under the radar

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[–] Squiddork@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you read the paper, it assumes a 100% absorption rate of the heavy metals emitted.

I'm not here to defend vapes but I think that is a seriously overlooked flaw in this study. Most people don't puff a cigarette/vape and hold it in their lungs until it's completely absorbed.

Couldn't see anything about the bioavailability of these carcinogens via lungs factored into the absorption rate either.

Ontop of that the sample size from this study is abysmal and from the same manufacturer and there is also a declared conflict of interest.

IMO more studies need to be done before we can conclusively determine the damage and risks of disposable vapes.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Some of the studies on smoking I've seen were less about understanding how and why people consume tobacco and recommend alternatives, and more like echoing the old practices and beliefs of the temperance movement, which considers tobacco and alcohol as archenemies of humanity. That anytime there's someone publicly declaring they quit smoking, it's followed with praises which at times reminiscent of a tent revival.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They're comparing it to cigarettes and other vapes.

20 times more lead is still 20 times more lead.

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[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago

I wonder if this is part of why gen Z is turning conservative.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (20 children)

Where? Why? Is it a quality control issue or an inherent danger of the technology?

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Regulatory issues. Adulterants in shitty quality disposables.

Not "vaping inherently dangerous."

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[–] catty@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Do these threats exist in the exhaled smoke? It seems like people around me don't GAF about the exhaust from vapes.

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