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If I were a cigarette company executive I'd be attempting to corner the market on providing e-cig fluid and doing my darnedest to keep it as unregulated as poss
by Moto7451 14y ago
If I were a cigarette company executive I'd be attempting to corner the market on providing e-cig fluid and doing my darnedest to keep it as unregulated as possible.
This is actually a great opportunity for the tobacco industry to turn a new page and shed its current image. More so if it definitively turns out that the exhaled vapor of e-sigs are not harmful to others and the user.
Should that be the case, and it'll take a while for that to be proven (AND if that's actually the case), and the marketing is done properly - the tobacco industry could go from reviled death dealers to the same societal image Starbucks has (to be blunt: providers of tasty psychoactive chemicals generally considered safe in moderation).
- wilfra 14y agoIt's the innovators dilemma. Very difficult to support a new technology that threatens your billions in revenue and profit. They're surely only getting involved in the e-cig market for defensive reasons. I could certainly see them lobbying behind the scenes to slow the market down, if not kill it entirely.