Vaping and Scraping (the Bottom of the Barrel).

English and Welsh councils are joining a chorus calling for the banning of single-use vapes. These vapes, in addition, to adding to street litter, have caused fires in rubbish trucks and recycling centres. Their combination of plastics, lithium batteries and bits of electron seems designed to make recycling next to impossible (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/15/councils-in-england-and-wales-join-calls-for-ban-on-disposable-vapes). Vaping consortia have predictably countered the call for a ban, by reiterating that vaping helps cigarette smokers to quit. There's recent evidence that smokers, who are helped to choose a vaping flavour, are more successful in giving up cigarettes. This may be another case where the 'Mandy Rice-Davis Applies' principle should be invoked. They would say that wouldn't they? Vaping consortia are clearly more interested in selling vapes than saving folk from lung cancer. Getting lots of children 'hooked' on highly addictive nicotine, is distinctly antisocial.