Disposable vapes will be banned in the UK from June 2025 as recently called by the UK Government. We take to Argyle Street to find out what Glaswegians think.
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00:00Well, it's up to each individual. I mean, I was a smoker. I smoked, you know, I was pretty heavy in smoking.
00:08But fortunately I gave up because the price of cigarettes and tobacco today is astronomical, you know.
00:16I'm very mixed on it. So I used to work in PPZ for a while. Not incredibly long, but they do teach you on a lot of these things so you can talk to customers about it.
00:24And the biggest issue I have with it, I am ultimately for it. It's a massive waste when it comes to plastic, lithium-ion batteries as well.
00:32They're bad for the environment and they end up everywhere. And they're dangerous. Anything punctures them, they end up exploding.
00:37But the biggest issue I have with them is that there's so much stock in circulation already in places like Nickel & Dime or all these corner shops.
00:45They'll just dump them somewhere.
00:47It's like, what are we going to do with them all?
00:48Yeah, exactly. They'll never fade out.
00:50I'm very much of the same mind on that.
00:52And the impact of them has already been felt. You've got so many more people vaping than they used to be smoking.
00:57And it really does feel like anyone younger than us, like I'm 23, you're 21.
01:01Anyone younger than us, they vape and they never smoke at all.
01:06And they never would.
01:07So banning disposables ends up with a lot of people now with extensively withdrawal symptoms and they won't buy a mod.
01:14They're probably just going to buy cigarettes.
01:16Or they'll just get them illegally.
01:18Yeah.
01:19It's really mixed. I think they're doing the right decision, but I don't know how it's going to pan out.
01:23People who go into vaping, they then become addicted to vaping, you know.
01:27But it's not for people to say how they should live and how they shouldn't, you know.
01:35It's up to me, up to each individual person if they want to vape.