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To be sick of vapes everywhere

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MaloneMeadow · 25/01/2024 20:43

I can’t seem to go anywhere these days without a white cloud of disgusting candy flavoured vapour being blown in my face. It’s gotten to a point where I truly believe that it’s worse than smoking - at least most smokers are well aware that it’s an anti-social behaviour and do it away from other people, and outdoors! With vapers there seem to be absolutely no boundaries or thought that not everyone wants to be covered in their chemical smoke.

Absolutely horrible habit that’s catching on to far too many young children. A ban can’t come soon enough - even my 19 year old DD is sick of her friends being addicted to them. They’re like dummies in some cases, never out of their mouths!

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Scampuss · 25/01/2024 22:34

I googled VAPI...

So mostly THC (which is carried in oil as I said previously).

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PencilsInSpace · 25/01/2024 22:31

MaloneMeadow · 25/01/2024 22:17

There have already been publicised cases - google VAPI

Both girls had severe pneumonia, which respiratory consultants were confident was related to their vape addiction

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VAPI is another name for EVALI according to wiki.

https://www.qeios.com/read/ZGVHM7.3

The outbreak of lung injuries often known as "EVALI" was nothing to do with nicotine vaping

INTRODUCTION. Many commentators, activists, academics and public health agencies continue to assert or imply that an outbreak of severe and fatal lung injuries that occurred primarily in the United States between mid-2019 and early 2020 may have been.....

https://www.qeios.com/read/ZGVHM7.3

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MaloneMeadow · 25/01/2024 22:28

mambojambodothetango · 25/01/2024 22:21

I literally have no experience of vaping. Maybe I live in a bubble but I never see people doing it where I live and even when going elsewhere it's not something I notice. I don't know anyone who does it. Not denying it must exist but just struck that you're sick of it yet I never see it.

I live in Belfast, so capital city, huge uni population which definitely contributes to things

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DillDanding · 25/01/2024 22:24

I have a new colleague that vapes. He’s terribly embarrassed and apologetic about it, considers himself a pariah, but I don’t think it’s that bad.

Apart from him, I don’t know anyone that smokes or vapes. So it really doesn’t affect me.

mambojambodothetango · 25/01/2024 22:21

I literally have no experience of vaping. Maybe I live in a bubble but I never see people doing it where I live and even when going elsewhere it's not something I notice. I don't know anyone who does it. Not denying it must exist but just struck that you're sick of it yet I never see it.

OnlyTheBravest · 25/01/2024 22:20

I have noticed that some vapers do not seem to be able to regulate themselves and pull out their vape whenever they feel. Those that use them on public transport are the worse. You cannot move away from them.
I do not want them banned but used appropriately.

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MaloneMeadow · 25/01/2024 22:17

Scampuss · 25/01/2024 22:11

Were there not media reports of this? Multiple hospitalisations among a group of kids would surely have been reported widely.

As a long term vaper (never used disposables) I've followed reporting on vaping and have yet to see stories like this.

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There have already been publicised cases - google VAPI

Both girls had severe pneumonia, which respiratory consultants were confident was related to their vape addiction

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Scampuss · 25/01/2024 22:11

MaloneMeadow · 25/01/2024 21:08

Yes, all regular vape liquid. Mostly from the disposable ones. No cannabis or anything like that

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Were there not media reports of this? Multiple hospitalisations among a group of kids would surely have been reported widely.

As a long term vaper (never used disposables) I've followed reporting on vaping and have yet to see stories like this.

MadeOfAllWork · 25/01/2024 22:10

When I don’t get is that in do many other areas of our lives we are encouraged to make environmentally responsible choices but these things use no end of plastics. The batteries are a huge problem too. Not only when they are just chucked about as litter but when they get thrown in the bin. They cause a lot of fires at waste processing plants.

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MaloneMeadow · 25/01/2024 22:07

couiza · 25/01/2024 21:57

OP, do you drive and emit pollutants into the atmosphere? No escape from that outdoors either.

I don't use cigs or vapes etc. but honestly they don't bother me one bit. See above.

I agree about children vaping and disposables though.

Yes, I do drive, but not indoors! The amount of people who think it is ok to vape in shopping centres, bars, at concerts and even in hospitals is astounding! I have experienced all of the above

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MaloneMeadow · 25/01/2024 22:05

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If you have nothing relevant or constructive to add then don’t say anything. Not hard

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ElevenSeven · 25/01/2024 21:57

Thegoodbadandugly · 25/01/2024 20:54

Better a vape than cigarette smoke.

Better none at all

couiza · 25/01/2024 21:57

OP, do you drive and emit pollutants into the atmosphere? No escape from that outdoors either.

I don't use cigs or vapes etc. but honestly they don't bother me one bit. See above.

I agree about children vaping and disposables though.

Unleashthecrazy · 25/01/2024 21:55

Couldn't agree more, the smell is so overwhelming, there just isn't any consideration for the people around them.

FYI I have the same views about cigarette smokers but most of them tend to move out of groups when smoking. Vape smokers don't tend to give the same respect from my experience.

DdraigGoch · 25/01/2024 21:52

Precipice · 25/01/2024 21:46

I agree, but I don't find that smokers are all that conscious about the smoke they're blowing around people either.

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I work on trains. It's very unusual to have a smoker bold enough to light up in the middle of a carriage. A few try and hide in the toilet (I'll still chuck you off if I catch you). Vapers on the other hand do it everywhere.

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youkiddingme · 25/01/2024 21:46

userxx · 25/01/2024 20:59

If that’s all you’ve got to get wound up over then you’re doing alright 👍

Weird assumption to make. If that's all you've got to contribute, I wouldn't bother.

Hate vapes, OP. They can be hard to avoid and trigger my DH's asthma.

QueenCamilla · 25/01/2024 21:46

The stink of weed seems to be the worse problem where I live. Definitely smells worse than tabacco and vapes combined.

Precipice · 25/01/2024 21:46

NotToYou · 25/01/2024 21:34

Agreed. They smell awful and people seem to think that as they're not 'as bad' as smoking they don't have to move away from non-vapers.

I agree, but I don't find that smokers are all that conscious about the smoke they're blowing around people either.

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MaloneMeadow · 25/01/2024 21:44

DdraigGoch · 25/01/2024 21:41

They should only be available on prescription to those trying to give up smoking. Kids certainly shouldn't be able to get hold of them.

Agree with this 100%. Actually a really good idea - unfortunately our government doesn’t seem to have any of those..

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TheDandyLion · 25/01/2024 21:41

I'm not bothered by the vapour it the disposable batteries littering the place which I find so abhorrent.

DdraigGoch · 25/01/2024 21:41

They should only be available on prescription to those trying to give up smoking. Kids certainly shouldn't be able to get hold of them.

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MaloneMeadow · 25/01/2024 21:38

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 25/01/2024 21:30

If that’s all you’ve got to get wound up over then you’re doing alright 👍

What a stupid comment. Did the OP say this was the only thing in life she is worried about? No. And do you really not give a shit about the fact that these things are being marketed to, and heavily used by, children? Wow.

This!

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Gettingbysomehow · 25/01/2024 21:37

Even worse waiting at the shop counter in my half hour lunch break while 100 other people in front of me can't decide what bloody vape flavour to buy and buying scratch cards and lottery tickets. For fucks sake.

NotToYou · 25/01/2024 21:34

Agreed. They smell awful and people seem to think that as they're not 'as bad' as smoking they don't have to move away from non-vapers.