The only people more attracted to disposable vapes than teenagers are preschoolers. My husband and I have confiscated at least three so far that the kid has managed to find while we’re out walking or the worst, one on a playground. I guess at least it’s not needles, though two of them had little batteries that were frighteningly easy to get at.
I was just recently given a free disposable CBD vape with my latest dispensary order. They are quite popular in many more segments than "teenagers and preschoolers"
The comment was highlighting that their disposability and ubiquity leaves them too accessible to kids too young to know what they are or that they could be dangerous, not saying that only teenagers and preschoolers would be interested in them.
At any bar you go to just about every girl inside will be puffing on a vape (discretely or not) regardless of age.
Guys seem to generally prefer old school cigarettes outside. But many of them vape too.
Personally, I took up unfiltered hand rolled grits while in Europe for a bit (when in Rome…), and my throat is still recovering. I can certainly see the appeal of the vape. But as I don’t have any sort of anxious/depressive tendencies, nicotine is not something I have any desire to consume.
Not very true here in California where most people take the indoor smoking ban pretty seriously, and recently in France it seemed like regular cigarettes still outnumber vapes 20:1 or more. I haven't been to Japan in a couple of years, but regular cigarettes were still very popular there in 2019, and I don't recall seeing a single vape, though I wasn't specifically looking for them. Seems like a very regional thing -- I know that in the Midwestern USA for example, vaping is extremely popular across many demographics.
At least in Nürnberg and surrounds, vaping has taken over for people under 40. I’ve had colleagues vape on camera during informal meetings. The vapers I know (adults past college age) were all tobacco smokers before, so this is (hopefully) better for them. They definitely smell better!
Adults tend to use the refillable ones, and I usually can’t smell what they’re vaping, but I see high school age kids with the colorful, flavored disposable ones that my little kid seems to have a tropism for.
