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I don't disagree with your choice to categorize this in "Good". The prospect of a flavor ban makes this cat grumpy. The fact that someone, anyone, is willing to spend money to fight it is good.I don't care if Satan himself chipped in 12 million dollars to fight a vaping flavor ban I'd still put it in good.
Yup. I think BT understands that as well.If this ban goes through it will spread throughout the country like a virus or cancer.
I doubt they care much about vaping. They've taken their shot at that market and failed. They spent hundreds of millions developing, marketing, and merchandising products like Vuse and Mark Ten. I don't know for sure, but I'd guess they've never made a profit on any vape product. Look at where we are today. The total market for vapor products is over $5 billion, and the BT products have maybe 10% of that.It's just as plausible that Big Tobacco doesn't give a rats ass about vaping and they are spending 12 million to protect their MENTHOL cigarettes from the flavor ban.
They've taken their shot at that market and failed. They spent hundreds of millions developing, marketing, and merchandising products like Vuse and Mark Ten. I don't know for sure, but I'd guess they've never made a profit on any vape product.
I bought beer when I was 17, but the drinking age then was 18... and when I wore the right clothes and makeup, I could have passed for 28, easily -- girls would chuck their cigarettes into the toilet when I walked into the girl's bathroom, because they thought I was a teacher.
But there is a vast diff between minors buying alcohol/cigarettes... and minors buying vape stuff. My son is 30, but if he was 15, I'd GIVE him vape stuff, if he would promise not to smoke.
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Interesting; I hadn't heard of them before. Looks like their highest nic levels are 2.4% (24mg). With a whopping 350 mAh battery, I don't see these packing the kick that Juul does with its 50-some mg salt. Let's face it, that kick is one of the things that makes Juul so popular, both with the under-age crowd and with people who are looking for an alternative to smoking.BT even lost the convenience store cigilike market to the non BT company Juul.
Strange coincidence how every media outlet and anti vaping crusader in the universe all came out against the ONLY non BT product that's doing well at the exact same time isn't it?
Look out for the MyBlu from Blu ecigs (R.J. Reynolds, then Lorillard, Now owned by Imperial Brands) to be the first BT owned Pod Device to do well.
Imperial Tobacco bought out Von Erl and the "MyBlu" is a rebranded Von Erl.
The Von Erl (MyBlu) is a decent Pod System and i'd expect it to be the #2 selling convenience store ecig device right behind the Juul.
They might even pass Juul since the MyBlu Starter Kit with one pod is only $19.99 Vs the $29.99 Juul Starter Kit with one Pod
Plus the MyBlu Pods come in packs of two (as opposed to Juul's 4-pack that costs twice as much) and even though they are supposed to be one use disposable pods the most brain dead of idiot can refill them with the salt nic level/flavor that they choose with a small straight screwdriver.
You get about six or seven refills out of a pod before the wick/coil goes bad.
The Juul Pods seem much harder to refill.
So if I were a smoker making a choice between the best 2 devices at the gas station I am going to go for the MyBlu because it's cheaper to give it a try.
and If I'm a Pod Device user that decides to get something that I can have easy convenience store access to I'm going to choose the MyBlu because of the price and ease of refilling the Pods.