La rivista indaga: l’indagine sotto copertura rivela la scala del mercato del vaporizzazione illecito dell’Irlanda
https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-illegal-sale-vapes-6604182-Jan2025/
di Tardis01
La rivista indaga: l’indagine sotto copertura rivela la scala del mercato del vaporizzazione illecito dell’Irlanda
https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-illegal-sale-vapes-6604182-Jan2025/
di Tardis01
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The scale? I’d say it’s fucking huge like.
It’s also worth noting that most of these products are made in China, while China itself bans the sale of flavoured vapes domestically.
Edit:
For more context there is also a good episode of the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast that talks about this in depth, but is more focused on US-specific issues of dealing with these and the challenges [https://open.spotify.com/episode/6N68zwImyxN5b9Iil0uYWu](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6N68zwImyxN5b9Iil0uYWu)
>[The Chinese companies have said] let’s just flood the market with these products. And if we get shut down, what’s goingto happen is that we’re essentially just have a front company that’s just a couple random American citizens that are acting as a front for us in the US. The FDA is not really going to be able to shut them down. They’re going to try and shut us down at the ports. All we need to do then is just set up a new company structure and import under a different label.
>So they’re all made in the same Shenzen
>Yeah, so they try, but it’s very difficult because if the hold at the port is for one company’s name and it’s under a different company’s name, it can be very hard to get through. The FDA hasn’t really figured out how to create a blanket ban on everything that you know is a nicotine containing disposable device. And some of them might be legal, you know, some of them.
Ah, come on! Look at the “random” locations they went to. If you expected anything there to NOT be counterfeit, then I don’t know what to say to you. This is as investigative as the annual Herald article about teens puking on Results night.
Geez, next you might enquire as to sudden rapid increase in volume of repair/vape shops all over the country. Might there be some correlation, hmmmm…..
addictive shite AND disposable plastic, win win.
Surely when the disposable vapes/flavours are banned it will not lead to increased organised crime revenue. That’s never happened with banned substances ever.
I find it insane how vape shops are allowed open the likes of Grafton Street. They’re like those american sweet shops. Pure money laundering
A well-known shop in Tallaght sells them openly, including HHC vapes. Some are meant to mimic packaging like Skittles or Starburst, but there’s no need for such packaging if adults are purely your target market. I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole; they’re straight out of China with God knows what in them.
You see the local school kids puffing away in them as well. I don’t believe in banning disposable vapes but they do need more regulation, seems like a bit of a free for all at the moment.