Vaping isn't just annoying to passersby who have to walk through clouds of vapor but may be actively harmful to the environment, a new study says. Discarded nicotine vapes contain extremely high levels of lead and other heavy metals in their remaining cache of e-liquid, researchers report in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

Vaping isn’t just annoying to passersby who have to walk through clouds of vapor but may be actively harmful to the environment, a new study says. Discarded nicotine vapes contain extremely high levels of lead and other heavy metals in their remaining cache of e-liquid, researchers report in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

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  • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    Vaping isn’t just annoying to passersby who have to walk through clouds of vapor

    Seems unnecessarily confrontational to the people whose habits you hope to change in writing the article.

    Disposable vapes are a plain and obvious environmental problem, and it doesn’t take a study on the contents of their spent cartridges to see why.

    All vapes should be rechargeable and refillable.