Around the world, an estimated total of more than a million people search for the three most popular brands of disposable vapes – Elf Bar, Geek Bar and Elux – each month. Those search volumes indicate that disposable vapes have become the most popular vaping products in the world by a wide margin – and proving how quickly technologies and trends can change in the vaping industry, disposable devices were hardly on anyone’s radar at all before 2020.
Given how widely used disposable vapes are today, there’s a good chance that your first device will be a disposable one if you’re a smoker and are thinking about making the switch to vaping. You might be curious, though, as to why you should buy a disposable vape when so many other different types of vapes exist.
As it turns out, there are plenty of good reasons why you should use a disposable vape instead of a refillable device. Here’s why disposable vapes are so popular.
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Disposable Vapes Are the Most Convenient Devices on the Market
The first reason why disposable vapes are so popular is because they’re the only vaping devices that can truly compete with cigarettes in terms of convenience. You don’t have to prepare a cigarette by charging or filling it before you can smoke it – you just pull it out of the pack and light it. Traditional refillable vaping devices require more maintenance, and that might be a problem for you if you can’t stand the idea of a vaping device not being ready to use when you need it.
A disposable vape, on the other hand, is ready to use immediately. In fact, one could argue that disposable vapes are even more convenient than cigarettes because you don’t have to light them. Just pull the device out of your pocket and puff on it when you need some nicotine – that’s all you need to do. As an added bonus, a disposable vape also takes up much less space in your pocket than a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.
Disposable Vapes Can Be the Cheapest Devices on the Market
When you read about the benefits of vaping vs. smoking, one of the things you’ll see most often is that switching to vaping can help you save a lot of money – particularly in the countries with the highest cigarette prices. Many people consider high cigarette pricing a regressive tax in that it disproportionately affects those who can’t really afford to pay the high prices but also can’t quit nicotine because it’s one of the world’s most addictive substances. Switching to vaping makes it dramatically cheaper to be a nicotine user, and it also has the added bonus of helping you get back at the profiteering tobacco industry.
Each type of vaping device has its own associated costs, though, and today’s high-capacity disposable vapes have the potential to be the cheapest vapes on the market. The Elux Legend Pro, for instance, costs about the same as one or two packs of cigarettes but lasts up to 3,500 puffs before it runs out of e-liquid. If you usually puff on a cigarette about 10 times before putting it out, that means you’re getting the equivalent of more than a carton and a half of cigarettes in a single vaping device. That’s unbelievably affordable compared to cigarettes.
Disposable Vapes Aren’t Subject to Some Flavor Bans
Before disposable vapes became popular, the most commonly used vaping products were small devices that stored their e-liquid in small pre-filled pods. That changed, however, when the United States – the world’s largest market for vaping products – banned most flavored vape pods in 2020. The ban had a major loophole, though, in that disposable vapes weren’t affected by it. Very quickly, disposable vapes in a wide variety of different flavors began to appear and were immediately accepted by consumers. Since vaping product preferences in the United States tend to affect the rest of the world as well, disposable vapes began to flood the market everywhere.
Even in nations that don’t have restrictions on e-liquid flavors, though, disposable vapes are still usually available in more flavors than pre-filled pod-based systems. That’s because disposables have become so popular that many manufacturers have either stopped making pod systems or have allowed their pod-based offerings to go stagnant. At the most, a typical pod-based vaping device usually has around 6-10 different flavors available. In contrast, the most popular disposable vapes are now available in dozens of different flavors. Today, there are nearly as many different flavors in the disposable segment of the vaping market as there are in the bottled vape juice category.
Disposable Vapes Feature Some of the Industry’s Latest Technologies
The final reason why disposable vapes have become so popular – and continue to become even more popular – is because the popularity has begun to feed on itself. As we mentioned at the beginning of this article, the three most popular disposable vape brands receive a combined traffic volume of more than a million searches per month around the world – so there’s an enormous amount of money in this segment of the vaping market. The most popular brand tends to change every few months, though, so the segment has no clear leader. Any device could become the world’s most popular disposable vape at any moment, so this is where many of the industry’s manufacturers are focusing their research and development efforts.
The fact that so many manufacturers have pumped so much money into developing new disposable vapes means that the technology is advancing much more quickly than it is in other segments of the market. Some of the new features that have recently been added to disposable vapes include:
- Mesh atomizer coils for increased vapor production
- Larger e-liquid reservoirs for longer-lasting devices and reduced costs
- Rechargeable batteries to allow devices to last longer without greatly increasing their size
- Airflow control mechanisms to alter the intensity and volume of the vapor
Considering all of the benefits that disposable vapes have compared to other types of vaping devices, it’s no surprise that most of today’s new vapers are using disposable devices rather than refillable ones – and when you make the switch to vaping, it’s likely that you’ll use a disposable vape as well. As good as today’s disposable devices are, you’ll probably never want to use anything else.
