Brett Ellis on the logic of banning disposable vapes

But, the stereotype still stands: Literally to a man, woman or them, they are generally highly academically intelligent, but droid-like, as they brown nose with the best to feather their own nests and climb the party power ladder to reach their level of incompetence, which, eventually, most of them manage.

The decisions they take are then ‘spun’ as being in the public interest despite there being no thought of the butterfly effect and the long-term knock-on of their actions for this generation and generations to come.

Take disposable vapes: Yes, as a teacher, they have, in previous schools, been an ‘issue,’ with students hiding in the latrines as they chug on Sweet Marys so hard that they come out of trap three looking like they have just had a cheek lift.

Most people I know who vape disposables are fully grown adults.

Brett Ellis suggests banning disposable vapes will mean more people smoking cigarettes My wife, who doesn’t smoke, has a disposable vape which comes out every few weeks when attending a party but she’s a big girl (not literally!) and it's her choice if she fancies a few puffs once a month, washed down with a fresh chianti.

By prohibiting any item, the butterfly starts to flap her wings: She will now be left with the option of buying a non-disposable with juice, coils, batteries and chargers and with that expense!

To justify her expenditure, surely that will mean more frequent use of said device.

The other options are to do what vapes were designed for, to stop smoking, and instead go back to the Marlboro and give herself some real problems, or maybe that’s the plan all along?

The lack of butterfly-effect thinking pervades all areas of our lives, including, er, fly-tipping.

For businesses, already crucified financially at every turn, the cost of waste disposal is now so excessive that it leaves many unscrupulous tradespeople with little choice but to dump the used bathroom suite on a layby on the green belt as we all, saddened, criticise this irksome and unsavoury behaviour, but fail to see the causes that led to this outcome.

But please, don’t take the word of a second-rate local hack as gospel.

Just think, not about the what but the why, and more importantly, what’s next?

As we see the return of the Eastern European black market street sellers who will flog you some dodgy Rothmans at half the shop price, before you burden the NHS once again having been poisoned, as we feel the breeze from the wings of the butterfly having banned disposable vapes…

• Brett Ellis is a teacher.