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The addiction to nicotine is nothing to scoff at, but they were taking a page out of the big tobacco brands' play book. The same people that go after Juul and d
by eurticket 6y ago
The addiction to nicotine is nothing to scoff at, but they were taking a page out of the big tobacco brands' play book. The same people that go after Juul and disregard regular tobacco brands is something, seeing how they are just doing what big tobacco has always done. There are a lot of people angry over those kids being targeted by Juul, but fail to see big tobacco next door, causing as much, if not more damage due to the nature of their product. Both should fail, but I would rather have an ecosystem of Ecigs(for adults) vs the waste and carnage that big tobacco has done for decades.
- musicale 6y ago> they were taking a page out of the big tobacco brands' play book Indeed. Note Altria's large investment in Juul. However, much of Juul's innovation was figuring out how to evade tobacco laws and regulations such as bans on advertising and flavored tobacco products (e.g. by claiming to not be a tobacco product) and how to escape much of the stigma associated with tobacco (e.g. by making something that looked more like an Apple product and less like a cigarette.) Evading legislation and industry regulation is a powerful business strategy while it lasts - consider Airbnb (avoided hotel tax), Uber/Lyft (avoided taxi medallion limits), Paypal (avoided bank regulation) and cable companies (avoided telecom regulation while providing phone service.)
- catalogia 6y agoJuul is big tobacco.