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It's crazy how everyone can wag a finger at the tobacco industry for paying actors/actresses to smoke in TV and films, but society collectively ignores the amou
by pull_my_finger 4y ago
It's crazy how everyone can wag a finger at the tobacco industry for paying actors/actresses to smoke in TV and films, but society collectively ignores the amount of "influencers" getting paid to vape on social media. Young kids with measurable influence over other young(er) kids pushing vape products. How is this OK?
- musicale 4y agoIt's a brilliant (and evil) strategy that seems to have been ushered in by Juul (now minority-stake owned by Altria.) Vaping simultaneously made tobacco cool again (vs. uncool smoking and e-cigarettes that looked like cigarettes), added appealing kid-friendly flavors (since banned in the US but still marketed abroad), and dodged anti-smoking regulation (such as bans on advertising and youth marketing) and activism. I'm sure Stanford's product design department is proud of the most successful product developed by their alumni (not to mention its innovative marketing.) Perhaps they can convince them to donate a Juul building to the university. And Nancy Pelosi must have been pleased to have sponsor Juul's logo displayed while she spoke at the California Democratic Party convention in 2019.