Comment on Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it

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• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    …that ought to be completely illegal

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• CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They literally only exist because of all the government regulations that decimated the industry “because of the children.”

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not exactly. Toy-shaped non-nicotine fruit-flavored cheap disposables, are the best thing to get children hooked up on vaping.

    Tobacco companies used to promote candy cigarettes for the same purpose.

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is literally the argument they used and it’s complete bullshit propaganda. Can you elaborate in detail on what makes it “toy shaped?” Do you consume fruit and or fruit-flavored things as an adult? I’m surprised you didn’t also mention “bright colors” as another draw being so appealing to children as well. I guess I never got the memo as an adult that I should only be consuming and enjoying drab colored, unflavored oatmeal for all my meals as color and flavor are no longer appealing to me.

      I suppose I should be forced to smoke cancer-causing cigarettes produced by big tobacco for my crime of enjoying nicotine and flavors as an adult all so some shitty parents can be absolved of their duty as parents. While we’re at it let’s also ban things like D&D and rock music because those lure children into worshipping the devil which leads to things like talking back and human sacrifice.

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      • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Can you elaborate in detail on what makes it “toy shaped?”

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        If you didn’t get the memo about marketing targeting, there are courses for that. You can drop the sarcasm.

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• termus@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure they technically aren’t but no one cares enough to stop their sale. Obama banned “vape flavorings targeting children” which all of them seem to be. I’ve only seen them for sale in vape/tobacco shops. Places that get regulated, like gas stations, aren’t carrying them. At least around where I am in the USA.

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