Real conservatives, not proto-fascist populists or extreme neo liberals, would want to conserve the environment because they’d be interested in keeping the tradition of clean air and growing traditional crops. We see some of this in Teal movements (green/blue).

The Tories don’t care about saving the children unless it’s a means to enacting some kind of dystopian police state. I wonder what their are motivation here is.

It may be two pronged.
“For the children” is a classic “you sure you want to block this legislation, mate?” move.
And the big tabacco companies have been rapidly pivoting to target vaping at children (to set up lifetime consumers), since we’ve made amazing headway reducing smoking.

Yeah they’re not banning vapes, and they don’t appear to be increasing the age of purchase.

The problem with disposable vapes is that their disposable. In the sense that you can physically throw them away not in the sense that they’re actually recyclable, not that we we will never know for sure because no one who has ever used one has ever put it in a bin, they just thrown it on the floor or in a canal if it all possible.

You forgot about “n’t”.

Yeah honestly the main thing I pity is that battery

Any place that sells a disposable lithium battery should be required to accept them back for recycling.

Like back in 2010, when they campaigned on heating allowances for OAP’s, which they didn’t bother to action until the 2015 election - by which time most of the people who voted that way had already died off!

Second video summary:

The video discusses how disposable vapes reflect the priorities of contemporary capitalism. It explores how industries are increasingly designing products and services to cultivate addiction and eliminate consumer choice. This includes tactics like the razor and blade model, restrictive patents, and subscription services that lock customers into long-term relationships. While governments regulate some addictive products, they often fail to curb exploitative practices that undermine competition. Disposable vapes exemplify how corporations have optimized business models around addiction and behavioral manipulation.

Something interesting this passage highlights is how companies in diverse industries from vaping to software to insulin have adopted similar strategies originally used by industries like tobacco and gambling. These strategies are designed to establish captive customer bases through addiction, lack of alternatives, and high switching costs.

First video summary: The video discusses vaping and analyzes its health effects compared to smoking cigarettes. It explains how vapes work on a technical level by heating liquid that contains nicotine. Nicotine is highly addictive as it affects the brain’s reward system and causes a rapid release of dopamine. Newer vapes use nicotine salts which allow for higher nicotine levels without throat irritation, potentially increasing addiction risks. While vaping may be less harmful than smoking, it still delivers nicotine which can have long term health impacts and is particularly concerning among youth. An interesting point was how nicotine salts allowed vapes to satisfy nicotine cravings more effectively like cigarettes, fueling their rise in popularity.

i sort of cant believe i just asked a question, calm tf down ok youre passionate, but theres a huge difference between a disposable vape and 40-50 cigarette butts, lets go for the lesser evil right?

I didn’t say it was gonna work, this measure is window dressing and an appeasement for the hand-wringing, what a’bout a’children brigade.

You want to help children? How about proper healthcare and education.

Banning substances and devices simply creates a black market and a job for our moronic and punitive criminal justice system.

This article neatly sums up the British attitude to substances.