Great. Time for the EU to follow suit. This is actually one of the few sane things the UK has done since Brexit.
It meant you could no longer go to a trusted seller and instead must now go online to shady vape sites, often coming from China, to get the stuff.
Meanwhile, disposables are getting cheaper (though still very expensive).
Nobody is really sure of why the tax hike occurred, as cigs and disposables were untouched. It had the obvious effect of pretty much everyone here switching to disposables or cigarettes though.
Anecdotally, in a bar last night, a very pushy Russian lady told us we weren't allowed to vape while there. The bar allows and encourages smoking, we were in our own corner not being obnoxious with it, blowing under the table, quite infrequently. Meanwhile the whole bar is filled with cigarette smoke, almost to the point it was too much for us (and my friend smokes cigarettes himself). Her reason was that the vape juice gave her headaches, apparently. It's not like she had a headache and sought out the culprit. She just saw the thing and decided to get stern with us. She also got upset when we brought our glasses up to the bar. I guarantee you she doesn't get headaches from vape clouds that dissipate almost immediately. We obliged, of course, as we're not trying to be jerks. Still made us leave earlier than we would have liked.
There's some weird culture thing against vaping whereas cigarettes are almost encouraged here in Berlin (and to some extent, Germany). Not sure why the government here is pushing for the two worse alternatives to refillables but they're doing a good job of it.
Huh that's weird. Germany is part of the EU and they have not allowed smoking in public indoor places for at least a decade.
If it's "allowed" in Berlin it must just not be policed somehow. Here in Barcelona it never really happens that you see anyone smoking or vaping in a bar. They always go outside to do it (which causes a lot of noise obviously).