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What evidence is there that tobacco companies are been behind the anti-vaping movement? I’d love to be proven wrong, but as far as I can tell the only reason pe
by grandmczeb 7y ago
What evidence is there that tobacco companies are been behind the anti-vaping movement? I’d love to be proven wrong, but as far as I can tell the only reason people say this is because they’re an easy whipping boy. IMO, it’s primarily driven by a crusade of parents and real anti tobacco groups (e.g. Tobacco Free CA.)
- eurasiantiger 7y agoTobacco addiction is about monoamine oxidase inhibition and its tendency to make nicotine extremely habit-forming. Tobacco smoke contains various MAO-inhibiting chemicals, which are the primary reinforcing agent. Vapes do not contain monoamine oxidase inhibitors, only nicotine. They are significantly less habit-forming, and the tobacco companies know this. Edit: except Juuls, which are tobacco extract vaporizers and almost certainly contain MAO inhibitors.
- grandmczeb 7y agoThat's not evidence, that's a motive. On the other hand it's a fact that tobacco companies have spent money on campaigns against various e-cigarette bans[1] and publicly argued against them as well[2]. [1] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/e-cigarettes https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/e-cigarettes [2] https://prospect.org/health/big-tobacco-lobbied-to-save-vaping-juul-altria/ https://prospect.org/health/big-tobacco-lobbied-to-save-vapi...
- samdunham 7y agoThere's not really any evidence, but it's easy to draw a line between when the media hysteria whipped up and when the tobacco industry got approval to sell their heated tobacco product in the US. Also, there's every reason to believe that the tobacco industry would hugely benefit from vaping (an industry they have a small chunk of) going away and being replaced with heated tobacco (an industry they would own).