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Re:San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigare... by joshanderson on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:52PM (#20279958)
The problem with ecigs is that they are way more polluting than regular cigarettes, due to all the plastic cartridges from the liquid and the batteries in the ecig devices.

So regardless of anything else, it’s good that ecigs are banned as much as possible.

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Re:San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigare... by bjackman on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:55PM (#20279996)
This is only a problem with the cheaper Zuul-style units, which use disposable parts with vendor lock-in. Even with those, I'd not automatically believe that they are more polluting than cigarette butts.
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Re:San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigare... by joshanderson on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:57PM (#20280029)
Most ecigs are the cheaper disposable kind.
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Re:San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigare... by Forbo on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @07:06PM (#20280141)
The vast majority of people I know that vape use refillable tanks. Is there some source you can point to that backs up the "most" claim?
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Re:San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigare... by joshanderson on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @07:19PM (#20280255)
You want to assume whatever is best for the environment. Worst case, if the assumption is wrong, we are preventing more pollution.
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