People vow to never buy disposable vapes again after seeing how they’re made
People have sworn off disposable vapes after watching video about how the devices are manufactured.
Current advice from the NHS is that vaping is useful as a way to help people stop smoking tobacco, with the health effects generally regarded as less bad.
Nonetheless, there are still health concerns around vaping and research into the extent of how bad it is for you is ongoing, and the advice remains to not start vaping if you don't already smoke tobacco.
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Concerns have also been raised about how vapes are marketed, not as a way to stop smoking, but as a habit in its own right, in particularly with children taking up the habit leading to some countries banning vapes altogether and introcucing legislation on how they are allowed to be advertised.
These concerns are compounded when it comes to disposable vapes, which also comes with worries about their environmental impact as well as their health impact.
But sometimes all the gentle, or stern, warnings in the world do not have the same effect as just showing how something is made, on film, and that's just the effect that one video had on many people when it showed the process that goes into the thing that they're putting into their bodies.
Strangely enough, none of those concerns about health or the environment seem to have been what has annoyed people about this video, in which a load of disposable vape pens are made up in a factory.
Nope, forget those, it’s all about one particular part of how they get made.
In the video, we see the computer aided design of the vape label and packaging, before the wiring gets done in bulk, and the electrical testing is performed.
Then, a production line is seen assembling the products and getting them into their casings, before someone applies the mouthpiece to the top.
This – out of the whole process – is what has people swearing off them for good.
It’s the fact that the person who applies the mouthpiece isn’t wearing gloves.
OK, it’s a legitimate concern, but is it the biggest?
Well, it seems to be for some.
Underneath the video, one person commented: “You are telling me that they are touching the tips of the vape without any glove on??
“Didn't they know that their hands release grease constantly soo imagine while working?
“Bruuuh i would not buy these lol I ain't looking to have a stranger finger print on my vape tips when i buy it.”
It’s obviously not the most well-constructed comment, but we get what they’re talking about, right?
Another person wrote: “Well, that doesn't look very appetizing, how they attach the mouthpieces without gloves, see 0:28.
“That was definitely the last one I bought after seeing that. (gag)”
Others have commented on the amount of plastic going into it, with one writing: “What a wasteful product.”
However, the award for the worst take of the whole comments section goes to one person who said: “I will stick to tobacco thx.”
Yeah, that’s not a great idea, either.
It might be the most pressing concern, but for people who campaign against vaping, if it puts people off the habit then a win's a win, maybe?
Topics: Vaping, Weird, Technology, YouTube
Tom Wood