Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you.
An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more.
FOLLOWING YESTERDAY’S BUDGET announcement that a tax on e-cigarettes will be introduced from the middle of next year, The Journal sought the opinion of a number of people who vape to see how it will impact their habits.
As part of Budget 2025, an excise of 50c per millilitre of e-liquid will be introduced from the middle of next year.
This means that the average disposable vape will increase in cost from €8 to €9.23. Meanwhile, a €5 bottle of e-liquid will see its price rise to €10 + VAT.
We wanted to know what people who vape think of the change and whether it will lead to a shift in behaviour or just simply be a bit annoying to have to pay more.
Most we spoke to said the price increase will make them think about quitting, but some felt it should have gone further.
One young woman said she is in favour of the tax and anything to make her “stop and think before buying one”.
“I would rather they ban them altogether so I would have to stop. Will this change my behaviour? Maybe, but I do want to quit anyway,” she said.
Another man, aged 22, said the increase in price is something that is playing into his decision to try and quit the habit.
“I smoked from 17-19 and I switched to vaping in college/during covid. I used a reusable one for a while, one day I lost it and bought a disposable one and now I buy one of them at least twice a week – which is too much,” he explained.
“I know I spend too much on them already and the increase in the price is definitely something that has played a part in my decision.”
The young man added that he is “extremely aware” of the environmental impact of disposable vapes too.
“I might still buy a reusable one when the tax does come in – again, just to have on a night out or whatever. That, to me, will be more cost-effective and more environmentally friendly, but the increase in cost for the liquid will definitely be somewhat in the back of my mind if I do decide to do that,” he said.
Others felt that the move punishes those who are trying to stop smoking.
This was a sentiment shared by one man in his 30s who uses a reusable vape with 0% nicotine e-liquid in an effort to quit cigarettes.
“It’s still massively cheaper than smoking but it feels unfair that by trying to do the right thing – and with the intention of stopping vaping once the physical habit was gone – I would still be lumped in with this tax increase,” he said.
However, there were others who said as long as vaping is still cheaper than smoking they won’t stop.
Another woman told The Journal that she uses disposable vapes as a replacement for cigarettes but is at a point where she only buys one approximately once every two weeks and so she doesn’t care about the price increases.
“It’s still cheaper than cigarettes. I think the mindset of vapers who maybe can’t afford to drive, go on holidays, buy a house etc. will allow themselves their daily vices at whatever price, to stay sane.”
Another woman, who uses one 24,000 puff vape a week, which costs approximately €15, said she does not care if the price goes up.
“I have to get by somehow.”
Do you vape? Let us know what you think about the tax in the comments below.
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
Been in bed together for years and now they expect you to believe they are different!…no difference just a different shade of blue
@John O’sullivan: whatever shade they have helped build a thriving economy and a country with a very high standard of living. Long may they continue their stellar efforts
@Argus Romsworth: Funny joke. Record homeless figures. Hoghest house prices have ever been. Architecting a demographic time bomb because young people can’t afford a house, nevermind a family. Pissed away billions of taxpayer money to private hoteliers (via direct provision and emergency accommodation schemes, only implementable by the truly short sighted gowls we see in government under FFG) and landlords (via HAP) instead of building long term solutions. They are not fit to make a bed, nevermind lead a country going through record surpluses.
@Argus Romsworth: High standard of living? That’s why we have people who are unable to afford to go to the doctor, and will now have to make the decision between eating properly or warming their homes in winter. W
@Sean Stevenson: The homeless situation is dire and especially for the children growing up in that. The current homeless in Ireland represents 0.269% of the population. By any measure, that is an extremely low stat. This does not negate the fact that the situation is getting progressively worse with the number increasing every month and real lives are behind that figure.
@Sean Stevenson: you’re absolutely correct
@John O’sullivan: your sexual preferences are of no business to the rest of us. Who you share your bed with is your business
@Argus Romsworth: You really make me sick you utter tool.
@Paul M Doe: I’d say you haven’t got out of the bed in a long time, your so lazy you use the bed pan.
@Argus Romsworth: don’t forget the cost of living that most are finding hard to make end meet, that the real economy for the low and middle income family’s.
@Argus Romsworth: just cop on
@Argus Romsworth: does it not bother you that another young Irish person was killed by a non national in kildare ,this is happening on a weekly basis
@Paul M Doe: your so lazy you would get someone else to have for you.
@Argus Romsworth: remember argus, this is the journal and the comments section is full of people with their hands out.. and full of people that never take personal responsibility.
The donkey Doherty got absolutely roasted lol
Not an honest person between the lot of them. All optics, 2 cheeks, one hole and a whole lot of BS.
@Daniel Gilroy: that’s SF/IRA for you
@Paul M Doe: FFG/Magdalene Laundries have a much worse, more sinister history if we’re playing that game :)
@Sean Stevenson: The Magdalen Laundries were a legacy from an earlier version of the IRA. They got “freedom” but no idea how to finance it and handed education and health to the church to run. It took until to sixties to clear up the mess they made.
@Paul M Doe: No gimp features, it’s 100 years of FFG failure. Shocking homelessness figures, a crumbling health service, useless public transport, poor investment record, poor public management of critical infrastructure. Scandal after scandal. How do you make the public forget about the last scandal have another one. I don’t support SF, just don’t have Stockholm syndrome.
@Vincent Alexander: Incorrect, they still existed well into the seventies, unfortunately!
@Daniel Gilroy: May they rule for 1000 years :)
@Vincent Alexander: your lack of knowledge on irish is staggering. Ireland was robbed for years and then stripped of anything of value when handed over.
It’s all incredibly depressing .If ever there was a case of the elephant in the room it’s this current situation .We had a housing crisis so they solved it by allowing more and more unwanted ppl in ,We had a health crisis so same solution .Is there any alternative to voting that wasteful shower
@Joan Grennan: Again, blame immigrants, not the actual problem despite you and others constantly beating that drum, the British mindset is alive and well in Ireland, despite us having emigrated in drpves for over 100 years. Your story has no merit.
@Joan Grennan: we need a COMPLETE change of government. Or FG will continue their rampage.
@Trump24: dream on time for them to go get real can’t be trusted can’t trust any party all the same
@Brian D’Arcy: Yes , the Irish people went all over the world . Mostly to countries with larger populations and or larger land areas than Ireland . Over the last 20 years Irish population has gone from 3.5 million people to 5.3 million people . Ireland a small country has been overrun by immigrants from the 4 corners of the world , immigrants that Irish people have very little in common with culturally . Irish people were NEVER asked for their views on this influx and they were never given an opportunity to vote for or against it in a referendum , though we’ve had a referendum on such nonsense as same sex so-called “marriage” . The culprits responsible for this out of control immigration are FG FF GP and these same are now seeking votes in the General Election . I for one will not vote for any of them .
@Joan Grennan: Sinn Féin and other, anybody but FF/FG the two political parties that have left us in this mess after a hundred years.
God help us when FFFG take control again. With lots of countries tightening their borders Ireland will be destination of choice for the unvetted migrants. As it is our country has been overrun. Housing, education and health suffering. Micheal doesnt like nationalism.
@GERRY MURPHY: Even Germany have re instated full Border Controls, as they have lost control of their State. The most liberal & prosperous country in Europe doesn’t even have a Govt now & is deeply divided, just like France. Immigration will bring down Europe & very soon. Putin & the Islamic Fundamentalists are laughing as Europe is falling without them even trying. As you rightly say we are now going to become the main destination with all our pull factors, like “voluntary deportation”. I expect the 150,000 people will be exceeded in 2025/2026 & when recession hits Europe, Ireland will fall apart & the divisions open up into a breakdown in society.
Two cheeks of the same ar$£e with etheir snouts in the same troth.
Long as labor don’t get nowhere I’ll b happy remember when they tried to close our p/o,s in favour of greedy banks still on their books labour doing it in UK they’ll do it here to given the chance
@liam ward: there all the same
Fine Gael Fianna Fáil landslide
The economy is booming
@older people please vote stop living on bread line
@Tony Gleeson: the framework is there for all to be prosperous in this country
@Argus Romsworth: Capitalism by it’s very nature disallows prosperity for all.
@Argus Romsworth: I daresay it is, for the chosen elite!
@Argus Romsworth: Time for a reality check .We have a booming economy which cd well and truly bomb depending on what the fall out is from U.K.election . They have squandered money every which way ,which is not just about waste but shows monumental lack of judgement and intelligence . Add to which it’s all posturing and conniving .
@Argus Romsworth: I have read your posts before with derision. You are probably the most deluded tool out there. Are you sure you are ok?. The country isn’t booming. Our GDP to debt ratio is enormous. These pigs in FFG ensured our children’s children will be repaying private bank debt for years to come.We are fuc ked if people like you think this gov is doing a great job. Truly fuc ked.
@Argus Romsworth: dream on this country is finished
@Gerry Lamont: well said, truly fu!!ed It the ordinary working person don’t get out and vote, we need a change now more than ever.
If you want change VOTE for it, enough of the PUB talk ,just do it.
They are big hams alright. All these lies, people better not fall for it
@John: Yeah, everyone knows it… hopefully her family will get justice.
Surely the electorate couldn’t be that gullable. Oh wait..
This bunch of reprobates will be reelected by the same idiots who voted for them last election.It will a coalition with Labour, a party who targeted the poor and less well off last time in gov.while leaving the rich untouched. It will be an unholy trinity at its worst which will wreck this country.
If Jack Chambers & Hildegarde Naughton, two Ministers, are the best both parties can do, then this country is goosed. It was car crash stuff, childish, arrogant, embarrassing to watch & as a working family, their performance left us without any hope. Jack Chambers was very aggressive & how he was allowed dominate the air time was not right, a pompous arrogant gobsite, he was also continually having to refer to his notes, not on top of his brief, Hildegarde the same. Doherty actually came out on top & made sense, Ged Nash was one dimensional focusing on Tax implementation. The empty promises & lies coming from all political parties is contemptible, as they are pathological liars & have no intention of implementing any of them. Time for big change.
@SV3tN8M4: tell us about this “big change” that you are advocating for? Who?
@John: I did not know this. I thought it was Larry Murphy?
It was better than watching big brother, great TV
Please for the love of god nobody vote back in these wasters. We don’t have much choice but I’d rather SF over these yolks
Hi
So they worried about what happened in the US them?!?
Nobody cares as there fooling no one
Thats why i am voting sinn fein. They been in government together and thing are worst then ever. Cost living is crazy
So obvious now it’s dog eat dog.
Vote FG.. FF
Nobody cares as there fooling no one.
have your say