[tsol]

How is that cost effective? To me, it seems like something is wrong with our economy if it's cost effective to waste so many resources. I'm sure the cost to an individual to extract and refine those resources are low-- but the cost to society as a whole of littering those resources is great

[tiagod]

In many countries, tobacco is very highly taxed (over 10£ for a pack in the UK). Some recent legislation made reusable vaporiser products hard to purchase and sell, limiting tank sizes, nicotine contents, etc, which opened the market for these.

Due to the highly taxed nature of nicotine products, the battery/circuitry cost is negligible if it helps getting around restrictions.

[baobob]

Margins on these are almost certainly insane, and they appeal to young folk. Don't even need to do the math to know why even large retailers like Tesco are replacing their stocks with them

[dmurray]

Perhaps it's an unintended consequence of sin taxes on tobacco? If traditional cigarettes were sold at 100-300% of manufacturing cost, single-use electronics couldn't compete.

[neurostimulant]

Cigarettes are heavily taxed and very expensive, so these disposable e-cig is already profitable when sold at 50% cigarettes price.

[wahnfrieden]

you have a strong of faith in capitalism if you expect a market solution to these kind of ills, or if you think it's a few incremental reforms away from being back on-track as "correct" capitalism