From the article: "
This year will see “big fights about this, especially as a lot of major tobacco companies continue to take over the e-cigarette market,” said Stanton Glantz, a longtime antismoking activist and director of UCSF’s Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. “The big question is, are the politicians going to side with the tobacco companies or the public?”
There are three MAJOR problems with this statement, and it is clearly a deceptive tactic to get people who don't know any better to think that the tobacco companies are behind vaping.
- The fact that nearly all of the tobacco company "vaping" products suck, and are largely ineffective, is not mentioned. The fact that 99% of the vaping products that DO work are NOT "tobacco company" products is not mentioned is also a deceptive tactic.
- A simple comparison of the ingredient list of the liquid in any of the tobacco company produced eCigs against the ingredient list of the average "mom & Pop" shop (or other large non tobacco company owned eLiquid producers) proves that the tobacco companies are going to be up to the same tricks in a new medium. By that I mean they will add all sorts of chemicals to their eLiquid that serve no purpose other than to enhance the addiction of the electronic product so that they become as as addictive as actual cigarettes were.
- Anyone that takes a quick read through this forum can and will immediately find a large number of new users that come here stating that the Blu, V2, etc. eCigs that they tried did NOT work, and that the advanced hardware combined with mom & pop or non tobacco company produced eLiquid DID work. You don't have to be a business genius to see that that is a recipe for failed products. The big tobacco eCigs will only fly as far as they can be thrown, and no further. I see big tobacco eventually losing their asses in the eCig market, UNLESS the government sets up the game in such a manner so that they are the only ones that can succeed.
We should start a petition to send to the FDA asking them to prevent tobacco companies from being allowed to produce or sell
any electronic products. They have proven themselves untrustworthy, and they do not deserve the second chance in the brave new world that is vaping. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us. Let Glantz put that in his pipe and smoke it.
