The tobacco-toting treehopper
What tobacco? The whole point of a vape is that it doesn’t burn tobacco…
plenty of vapes have nicotine.
The squirrels were sighted shortly afterwards in a poorly modified Subaru WRX.
Not the onion but NY Post, which is almost the onion
@LittleBorat3 I assume you mean in terms of superficial absurdity, because that there is NO similarity between them.
Yes it’s such yellow press BS that it’s like the onion.
@LittleBorat3 You either don’t understand satire, don’t understand propaganda, or don’t understand media in general. I suggest you take a Media Studies course. Many are offered through extension programmes or to audit. I also suggest you consult Media Bias Fact Check regularly, and study the chart that its creator, Ad Fontes, updates regularly.
Good luck.
I think maybe it was in journalistic integrity but again, the onion wins.
It’s not a satirical outlet. It’s just lies half the time
This is horrible
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn those are AI generated images. Both photos look nearly identical just with different disposables being held by the squirrel.
Even if they’re real, what about all the other garbage squirrels gnaw on in a city environment? Furthermore, what about all those starving birds out there who couldn’t eat because these bastards keep eating all the bird seed in bird feeders? That’s the real story here.
We have quite the impact on nature
for real. squirrels need to switch to a plant based, biodegradable alternative
They need to switch to Linux.
Idk pretty sure we’ve all seen worse.
Doesn’t mean it’s not bad
Based
Disposable vapes are genuinely evil. With the lithium inside the batteries they are significantly more dangerous than throwing a cigarette out your car window. They have chips inside them with metals that can be recycled and they are made of a hard plastic that’ll be around for thousands if years. Whenever I mention this to people I know they agree with me that it’s evil but continue to use disposable vapes because it’s more convenient. I keep telling my roommates that it’s massively cheaper to get a refillable one and they always agree but never buy one. Every time I go to the vape shop to get juice and coils I drop off a literal tub of disposable vapes from my roommates.
I’m so tired of people being complacent in this and I’m tired of making this rant. People will get nervous about batteries when they see a phone explode in someone’s pocket but they’ll throw that shit on the ground or in the trash without a second thought. Just go back to smoking if you wanna throw shit on the ground. It’s better for the environment and public safety that way anyway.
Have you seen this shit?
Factory workers test 1000 of these contraptions per day.
it’s truly evil.
Human beings will get extinct due choosing convenience over sustainability.
That’s so incredibly messed up
It reminds me of the radium girls
I wish there was a $1/vape return scheme. Like we do here where I live with pop bottles. People would pick them out of the trash to return.
there’s a lot of things destroying the world, I don’t think a few random vape users you know are the ones destroying it, but the companies and 3 letter agencies that let this to continue. You’re attacking the wrong vector and coming up short every single time. You’re simply focused on the wrong people, thinking you can change people. Good luck with that.
Yeah, I’m not one for banning things willy nilly, but disposable vapes need banned. I’d much rather people vape a liquid refilled repairable vape like the kids used when I was young, but even pod type vapes are better. This is just reprehensibly avoidable e waste.
Or maybe we could just get rid of vaping all together
You should just quit vaping
The heavily metals and questionable ingredients end up in your lungs. Vaping also is more addictive since they can put way more nicotine in.
Easier said than done. I used to smoke a pack a day for 10 years and I’ve tried to quit entirely many times in the past. I’ve tried every method there is out there and it never sticks. If anything, vaping has helped me cut down on my nicotine input significantly because sometimes I don’t even use it for half the day and having it next to me is enough to get rid of cravings.
I vape cannabis. Whenever I go to the dispensary, it always surprises me how many disposable products there are. Some strains it’s not even possible to buy them as non-disposable carts at some of the IL dispensaries I go to. I always try to pick standalone carts, but I have also had it where I’ve ordered a cart online and they ended up trying to give me a disposable replacement without asking.
It’s nuts to me that people are buying these rechargeable things with batteries to throw out as a default (it’s definitely seems more popular than re-usable carts at dispensaries I’ve been to). Why wouldn’t you want your own device with your settings saved if you vape versus using some random piece of shit attached to the very expensive goop you’re smoking? I don’t get disposables at all. You start saving money after 3 or so carts if you buy your own battery.
Even worse: if you wanted to recycle one of them many are designed with housings that make it nearly impossible to open them up and replace the cartridge.
It would really help a lot if gas stations actually carried refillable tanks. Shit, even the replaceable pods are better.
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.
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.
Reminds me of that one guy that made a homeserver on a disposable vape.
Why vape in the first place?
Used to be a pack a day smoker. Personally I don’t think it’s better for my health, but I don’t smell like an ash tray so I got that going for me.
Using it to quit smoking is a good idea, and the only one actually.
But disposable !? FUCK ME this world is doomed…
I remember reading somewhere that vaping is more addictive than smoking. Sure it is not as bad as smoking health wise but the bar is set extremely low.
I believe it, it can have a much higher nicotine concentration if you want it to and vape juice is tasty.
The one saving grace of cigarettes are that they taste like garbage so it’s harder to get proper addicted to them. But a good vape will taste like candy even to a non smoker, so you can get drunk with your buddy one night and take a couple rips off of his watermelon flavored vape and exit that night with an intense craving for more, ask me how I know.
I was under the impression that there are metal flakes in the flavors that absolutely wrecked your lungs. More so than regular cigarettes, was my understanding.
Using it to quit smoking is a good idea
Not really. You are just exchanging one addictive habit for another. Tobacco companies have been selling vapes as safe alternatives to smoking driven by social media bots and MD shills, but it’s a big fucking lie.
Heating glycerol to make vapor breaks glycerol, a safe compound into DHA dihydroacetone, which causes DNA damage which can trigger cancer in lung.
But that’s just DHA. We have no idea and have no testing or regulation of what goes into vapes coming out of Chinese chemical plants. No one is looking at this.
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Vapes don’t typically get hot enough to break glycerin down into DHA. The normal temperature range is 400-450F while glycerin breaks down at 536F
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That’s an invitro study which is basically worthless.
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That’s a valid point about Chinese eliquid, which is part of why disposables aren’t a good option.
Remind me in 10 years
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lol the vapes have higher nicotine content and are more consumable. Your smoking habit will just double.
It’s almost like the tobacco industry doesn’t have your well being at heart. Vaping is actually way more profitable than smoking since there is less social stigma around it. Vaping companies market themselves as clean and healthy but in reality they are still preying off people who are hopelessly addicted.
Your smoking “habit” (addiction) will go away but it gets replaced rather than removed.
Actually the stats say that only a fraction of people quit, but instead increase the nicotine content.
Whack ass study alert. 7 studies used… just read the titles of the studies.
It’s a meta study, and 7 studies is more than sufficient to establish statistical significance. There’s also no issue with the study titles.
People have been quitting smoking for a lot longer than capes existed. Vaping is not safe.
it can be a better method for some people than the other extant methods.
The grand majority of people vaping aren’t quitting smoking and probably never smoked
That’s not the topic of discussion.
yeah, that’s their choice. weird how that works, isn’t it.
You have no “choice” when you are drug addicted to nicotine.
Yeah but stop pretending like vapes are some magic device to help with addiction. If they were actually meant to help with addiction they would be prescribed and come with additional medical help. Time after time we have seen this exact situation play out, something comes around to decrease addiction and does nothing more than induce it this is no different.
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone amoke disposable vapes yet. It’s insane if people are behaving like that.
Seriously? That’s wild because I almost never see anything but disposable. Everyone everywhere seems to like them, rare for me to see a refillable in the wild.
Refillable these days have become the vaping equivalent of the self roll and pipe smoking. It didn’t used to be like that. That said these days I mostly just see people smoking a cig or a joint if they’re smoking in public
What, people still smoke?
Yeah, surprisingly. But it’s just vaping now. I started vaping to quit smoking but you have to account for half of gen z getting hooked on juuls awhile back. When those first became popular I was more surprised when I found people that didn’t vape.
Honesty I wouldn’t be surprised if we start seeing people with major health issues because of vaping. Vaping gives the illusion of being clean but in reality the vapors are fully of all sorts of nasty chemicals.
Ya I got some tobacco for $30 a lbs you want some? You can chew it too.
I’d rather keep my teeth
Cigs are like 12 bucks a pack now too here.
Not really, its pretty uncommon these days
Next they’re gonna start getting broccoli hair cuts, frfr.
That hairstyle is the modern mullet. It looks so trash.
I already seeing a few with gold chains and tiny black track pants.
I think you saw Alvin and the chipmunks
You sure it wasn’t the Kia Hamsters?
Tru biz
Can they hook on nicotine addiction?
Getting flashbacks of the tomacco incident
But everything is fine
No mistake, they’re just fly as fuck.
Cultural appropriation!
