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Vaping 'needs a little bit more respect' for reducing number of smokers

Electric Picnic organisers want to ban disposable vapes to “protect the land the festival site is on”. But why don’t they ban cigarettes if that’s their motive? It can take up to 14 years for a cigarette butt to break down, with its toxins seeping into the earth causing a further 10-year impact. Not to mention the microplastics staying in the environment for an unknown amount of time.   That’s according to Joe Dunne from Respect Vapers, and also the founder and co-owner of Hale Vaping who joined Tom Dunne to discuss...

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Vaping 'needs a little bit more respect' for reducing number of smokers


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Electric Picnic organisers want to ban disposable vapes to “protect the land the festival site is on”. But why don’t they ban cigarettes if that’s their motive? It can take up to 14 years for a cigarette butt to break down, with its toxins seeping into the earth causing a further 10-year impact. Not to mention the microplastics staying in the environment for an unknown amount of time.  

That’s according to Joe Dunne from Respect Vapers, and also the founder and co-owner of Hale Vaping who joined Tom Dunne to discuss...


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