The article is full of grammatical errors, like it was written by a Grade 5 student who’s learning English as their second language.
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More than likely will be under their “Metro” banner (not to be confused with Woolies Metro). A few have popped up in Western Melbourne in recent years.
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Good. Maybe a***holes on the train will stop vaping.
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ah no , its going to be called burk, there is a facebook page called burkfuels ballarat north
Not a great name.
berk (also burk)
noun
INFORMAL•BRITISH
- a stupid person.
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Again, FUFO - I offer it to Burk. So Aussie it hurts.
I think this will be extremely difficult to enforce - especially as some vapes are just selling a liquid - defining what counts as a “vape” will get to a similar place to all those stores that very obviously sell bongs, but through the world’s least convincing rebranding make it not drug related.
That said, I hate how vaping has become so normalised - there’s so many places no one even thinks to smoke, but people will just vape, no matter how many no vaping signs. Though my example of this, of people vaping near me in the pit at a concert last week, is kinda offset by there also being smoke machines on stage, not sure the net effect of all I was breathing in…
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Likely agree with this, and they’re so ubiquitous as a drop shipped item that I suspect that most will still slip through the cracks as they do now similar to other cheap items drop shipped from China that have been subject to bans by the federal government in recent years - e.g. strong neodymium magnets, high powered laser points, etc. The only thing is the middle-men operating in Australia will cease.
I vape occasionally but seeing it become the norm in many places where smoking is not permitted is gross.
I was in a large pub/restaurant last week and someone set off the fire alarms after vaping in the toilet. Great that they have smoke detecttors that can detect small amounts of smoke but not great that the venue was almost evacuated because of some idiot.
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Whoever it was, I hope they weren’t allowed back in to finish their meal etc.
They weren’t caught because there aren’t any cameras in the toilet. I’m sure if they analysed other footage in the venue they could catch the culprit but it wasn’t a priority for them. They just wanted to make sure there wasn’t an actual fire and then it was back to business. I guess it might have happened before because our waiter wasnt too concerned.
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Oh ok, I thought another patron might have seen it and known who it was and dobbed them in.
Barely see any vaping in Tasmania. Pretty sure it’s near enough to banned, the prescription for nicotine ones has definitely been in place for a while. I remember seeing them a few years ago and had a few colleagues who did occasionally but I can’t remember the last time I saw one. When we were in New Zealand I was surprised at how prevalent it was there.
I have a cousin who is nearly 60 and recently switched from cigarettes to vaping because he thinks it is healthier….well, not nearly as healthy as quitting altogether!
My Grandmother who had smoked for nearly 7 decades got pneumonia and ended up in hospital about a decade ago. She was mighty annoyed when they wouldn’t let her smoke. When she was recovering/recovered she kicked the ciggies and vaped for a few months and then gave that up and hasn’t smoked anything since. We thought nothing was ever going to get her to stop.
She’s my last remaining grandparent and will be 95 I think later this year.
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Wow that’s amazing … still alive at nearly 95 after all that smoking!
I do wonder if/when my cousin finds out he has some kind of cancer as he has smoked/vaped for 40 years, he was smoking 2 packs a day before he switched to vaping.
I also had an aunt who smoked for 50 years and lived to be 92 before she died.
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Yep, it has been noted in the family that she was the unhealthiest but is the only one left. I’ve been lucky though that all my grandparents have reached an old age with the exception of my Pop (the only one I remember was my Nan’s 4th husband) and he died a decade ago in his 80’s. My Nan passed late 2021 and was 99 and my Grandfather was just short of 95 when he passed in early 2021.
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My family has been a bit all over the place.
Grandfathers died at 56 and 69 - I never met either of them.
Grandmothers fared better at 82 and 87.
Both my mum and dad died at 80.
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Unionised Apple Store in US to push for tipping option
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