• village604@adultswim.fan
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    8 hours ago

    It would really help a lot if gas stations actually carried refillable tanks. Shit, even the replaceable pods are better.

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      7 hours ago

      Well, they did have the pods more widely available back when I started vaping to quit smoking. Unfortunately, big tobacco companies lobbied to get all the pod flavors banned and now the only ones you can get at gas stations are menthol and tobacco flavor which both taste awful. Disposable vapes filled the market gap that was created and now we have disposable vapes with lithium batteries plaguing the places cigarette butts used to be.

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        7 hours ago

        That wasn’t big tobacco, actually. Big T fought against the FDA on it.

        The reason the FDA went so hard on it is because states had already spent their expected revenue from tobacco taxes and vaping cut into that heavily.