A MUM who discovered frayed cords in her teenage daughter was horrified to discover the frightening theory behind them. Taking to a Facebook group, the concerned mum shared a snap of a USB cord with a frayed end revealing that she had found several similar ones in her teen’s room.
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Captioning her post she wrote: “We keep finding phone chargers like this in our 17-year-old daughter’s room.”. The mum shared her own theories before asking fellow parents if they might know what they were being used for. She wrote: “When we asked her if she was zapping herself, she denied it, but she also keeps denying that she is vaping—when I know for a fact she is because I keep finding vapes in her room.
“I was wondering if she could be using the phone charger wires for something to do with the vapes?. “Has anyone ever seen this? Please help a stressed mum out.”. Fellow mums were quick to chime in with their own theories, with many agreeing that the teen could be secretly recharging disposable vapes.
“She is recharging the vapes when they die,” wrote one mum. “I know this because I’ve caught my children doing the same thing.”. Another added: “It’s to charge a vape to get more out of them. I find these in my son’s room often.”. Another parent wrote “she is recharging them which is so, so bad for you.. It’s like smoking battery acid.”.
“You can open vapes up and pull the battery out of them,” a third reader explained. In 2023, experts sounded the alarm about the dangerous trend of recharging disposable vapes, after tutorials began surfacing online. National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) for South Australia and Northern Territory executive director Larry Moore previously warned of the dangers of recharging disposable vapes.
“It could lead to the vape melting or a computer being damaged if the charging cord is connected during the process,” he previously told InDaily. “It could even cause a fire.”. However, the dangerous trend will no longer be a worry for British parents as single-use vapes will be banned from June 1 2025.
Ministers have pledged to crackdown on poorly regulated vapes and e-cigarettes following an explosion in the number of teenagers who use them. New rules for manufacturers and shopkeepers are expected to come into force in late 2024 or early 2025. They are set to include:.
The ban on disposable vapes is part of ambitious government plans to tackle the rise in youth vaping. A report published by Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) last June found 20.5 per cent of children in the UK had tried vaping in 2023, up from 15.8 per cent in 2022 and 13.9 per cent in 2020.
