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France to ban disposable e-cigarettes by 2025
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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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Disposable anything should be regulated. And only if there is a reasonable requirement to be disposable it can be.. else, nope. This is just manufacturing externalizing the cost of the waste onto society instead of developing proper reusable products and/or making them good enough. Disposable products should be made from stuff that the manufacturer is responsible for the waste/ recycling.
Surgical gloves, yes. E cigarette, nope.
On e cigarettes specifically, after having watched bigclive dismantle lots of them, showing that they are practically just a few tiny cheap components away from being rechargeable and refillable (and they can indeed almost all be recharged and refilled), I guess manufacturers simply saw a market for it. It's stupid from start to finish, but then again cigarettes as a whole are stupid.