[thewildginger]

I vape daily and use disposables (yes, I am the baddie.)

You'd be surprised. A lot of people go out drinking, do not want to bum cigarettes off of strangers or smell bad but still want to use nicotine and drink. Single use vapes you throw away the next day are great for that. Women buy disposables a lot, according to the personnel at the vape shop I go to which specializes in disposables.

I think vaping even disposables is better than smoking cigarettes. I would ban cigarettes before banning disposables purely due to the litter from butts. It does not help that in the US public smoking areas do not exist so people often throw it on the ground.

Nicotine is not a nice habit but there are certainly lesser evils in the spectrum and disposables are a far lesser evil than cigarettes.

[cricalix]

People who litter butts are just as comfortable littering disposables if the streets near me are anything to go by. Also, things like lithium are kinda rare - just chucking them on the ground is terrible for the environment overall, better to have not made them in the first place.

[jondwillis]

Nitpick: lithium isn’t rare, per se, but it is somewhat expensive (environment and capital, though capital costs have been going down) to extract/mine/distill.

[jondwillis]

Parent comment poster here: I also use disposable vapes at times, but in the last year I have made a concerted effort to dismantle and reuse/recycle what I can from them. (Yes I have a fire resistant box of many different types of lithium ion batteries taped up inside that i’ll get around to using in a project or recycling someday…)