Grim footage showing factory employee testing 'up to 10,000 vapes a day' leaves people vowing to quit

Footage of inside a vape factory in China shows the grim reality of how e-cigarettes are actually made.

MACHINA, a company focused on implementing and sharing ethical sourcing options, 'visited one of the top disposable vape factories' in Shenzhen, China.

In a video posted on their YouTube channel last year, they showcased what the manufacturing process is like with there being such a high-demand for vapes.

It of course comes after our government's decision to ban the sale and supply of single-use vapes in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1 July 2025.

Over in China, however, vapes are legal in the mainland, yet prohibited on public transport.

Not what you want to see (YouTube/MACHINA)

Now, everything about the factory seems pretty normal until the quality control process comes up.

It appears that factory workers will take a puff from each individual vape before it gets sent out.

While that's great from a testing point of view, it seems people are questioning it from a pure 'ew' standpoint.

For instance, one member of staff said in a normal day that he'd test between 7,000 and 10,000 vapes.

Thousands of puffs on thousands of vapes every day surely adds up to a lot of health hazards.

"I feel so bad for that tester dude, that can’t be good for his health," one viewer said.

Footage of inside a vape factory in China shows the grim reality of how e-cigarettes are actually made (YouTube/MACHINA)

As another penned: "They told him they are testing the vapes when in reality that's just how they deal with the stress of line assembly for 12 hours a day."

"The f**k are you telling me this guy is my first ever kiss???" a third person joked, while a fourth said: "Bro takes air breaks."

"That f**king beeping in the background would drive me insane, dunno how they cope with it constantly lol," someone else pointed out.

Potential health risks of vaping

Heart disease

The American Heart Association (AHA) has linked vaping with cardiovascular disease.

"The latest research suggests that vaping is as harmful to the body's cardiovascular systems as cigarettes," said Dr Hoang Nguyen a cardiologist from MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute in California.

Lung disease

Yale Medicine says that lung illness EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping use-associated lung injury) has a link with vitamin E acetate, which is found in some THC vaping products, and when inhaled, causes lung damage.

Tooth decay

London based dentist Dr Vikas Prinja, who goes by @thelondondentist online, shared a video of a patient whose teeth were stained yellow/brown, which is caused by the nicotine and tar in vapes.

Dr Prinja said: "This is smokers staining, it covers the top layers of the teeth with a yellow/brown stain."