Big Tobacco For E-Cig!?

[Gamer]

I live in Richmond VA, and live around alot of smokers. and alot of smokers that Work in the nearby cigarette plant. When showing my E-Cig to a few buddy's a comment was made:

"OH yeah i've seen these. They have hundreds of prototypes for different ones down at the plant"

I asked him about them. He stated that PhilipMorris was creating prototypes of Ecigs to try and cash in from any loss of customers.

The other day we met up again. he had asked around and found some things out at the plant. A: they were in testing phases for a release of a new Ecig stated around 2011. B: apparently a lot of the big wigs were all for it. But the issue came to the fact that still they used no tobacco and the cost of loss to BigFarmer would be ridiculous.

Now I'm no reporter I'm just passing along word of mouth here. I thought this could just be some info that some people would like to hear. I found it interesting myself. If there is anyone out there that could fully confirm this through a newspaper article or something that would be cool too

Google rocks:
Philip Morris Eying Electronic-Cigarette Market? | CSP Daily News / Magazine | Tobacco



Note: Sorry if this was posted before or old news. I just found out and thought it was cool

[MsSki]

Thanks for sharing this
Tara

[(So) Jersey Girl]

I live in Richmond VA, and live around alot of smokers. and alot of smokers that Work in the nearby cigarette plant. When showing my E-Cig to a few buddy's a comment was made:

"OH yeah i've seen these. They have hundreds of prototypes for different ones down at the plant"

I asked him about them. He stated that PhilipMorris was creating prototypes of Ecigs to try and cash in from any loss of customers.

The other day we met up again. he had asked around and found some things out at the plant. A: they were in testing phases for a release of a new Ecig stated around 2011. B: apparently a lot of the big wigs were all for it. But the issue came to the fact that still they used no tobacco and the cost of loss to BigFarmer would be ridiculous.

Now I'm no reporter I'm just passing along word of mouth here. I thought this could just be some info that some people would like to hear. I found it interesting myself. If there is anyone out there that could fully confirm this through a newspaper article or something that would be cool too

Google rocks:
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Note: Sorry if this was posted before or old news. I just found out and thought it was cool

Not surprising. The fear of the loss of revenue to the government, tobacco and pharma is the real reason behind the objection to e-cigs. If every smoker switched to them, they will be out billions if not trillions of $.

[thelook]

Very interesting.......

[jj2]

Not surprising. The fear of the loss of revenue to the government, tobacco and pharma is the real reason behind the objection to e-cigs. If every smoker switched to them, they will be out billions if not trillions of $.

For a newbie, you are smart!!!

[(So) Jersey Girl]

For a newbie, you are smart!!!

Thank You! My mama didn't raise no fool!

[MacArthurBug]

O've wondered about the loss to farmers myself. I'm currently living in Kentucky and the farms here seem to sport three things: Tobacco, corn, and/or horses. I love e-cigs but I dislike the idea about some of these smaller family farms gowing under.

[mwahle1]

I do not know about the farmers because; correct me if I am wrong, you still need tobacco to extract the nicotine for the e-juice. However, maybe not as much, I really do not know.

[ChipCurtis]

True, we still need the farmers to grow the tobacco because e-juice is made partially from extracted nicotine from tobacco leaves. If e-cigs take off, tobacco farmers will still be in business. It's just a matter of tobacco processors "re-tooling" from shredding tobacco to liquefying it. Sort of like when the record companies switched from vinyl to CDs and again to portable MP3 players.

[(So) Jersey Girl]

I do not know about the farmers because; correct me if I am wrong, you still need tobacco to extract the nicotine for the e-juice. However, maybe not as much, I really do not know.

Agreed. I don't know how the tobacco industry works. I'm pretty sure it's not a cooperative or collective the way Ocean Spray is for cranberry farmers. As long as tobacco is needed to produce nicotine, the guy who grows it should do ok. I could be wrong. But if they can farm tobacco they can farm something else.