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UK and Ireland will ban them starting next year. Not sure about other European countries off-hand.

I would prefer that they made it so that the batteries had to be removable by design, similar to AAA batteries.

That would expand the market and decrease the waste.

Why make only the batteries removable? Why not the fluid and resistor as well? At which point you've banned single-use vapes and only have reusable ones.

From the article I'm getting that the problem is reusable vapes are subject to different FDA regulations, and "disposable" vapes are basically a loophole, at least in the US.

Probably because, initially, disposable vapes were only made by the big tobacco companies.

Standardization can breed innovation.

Ubiquitous small high density power rechargeable batteries flooding the market could make for quite a few fun toys.

This seems pretty reasonable.

I think that's what the UK regs will do.

My government has done everything but ban displayable ecigs. The tax on juice now exceeds the original cost.