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Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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1386 points BogdanTheGeek | 6 comments | 15 Sep 25 17:53 UTC | HN request time: 2.316s | source | bottom
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nusl ◴[15 Sep 25 14:33 UTC] No.45250208[source]▶
Disposable vapes are an abomination that somehow society has normalised.
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1. mcdonje ◴[15 Sep 25 14:56 UTC] No.45250455[source]▶
Society tends to normalize things that have ad budgets.
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3. toast0 ◴[15 Sep 25 16:50 UTC] No.45251964[source]▶
Do vapes have ad budgets? All I see are anti-vape ads?
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4. mcdonje ◴[15 Sep 25 17:04 UTC] No.45252211[source]▶
Yes, like all tobacco products. These days a lot of marketing is targeted and subtle, especially for an industry used to dealing with advertising restrictions.

https://tobaccoatlas.org/challenges/marketing/

5. isoprophlex ◴[15 Sep 25 17:22 UTC] No.45252425[source]▶
They represent the most viable pathway for big tobacco to exit regular cigarettes, which are in decline or at least struggling. AND vapes have huge traction with younger people. It's basically The Thing that big tobacco needs to go all in on if they want to keep selling carcinogenic air to people for the next 50 years
6. nusl ◴[16 Sep 25 15:06 UTC] No.45263321[source]▶
Ad budgets and convenience/"cool factor." Similar to cigarettes, people think they look cool when doing it and/or do so to fit in with groups that do.