I have doubts that this particular product is a game changer. There are a lot of advantages to liquid based vaping, including low cost. What inspires me about this situation is the CEO saying he'd like to see his company doing so well with lower risk alternatives that combustible tobacco products can be retired. This expressed goal hugely complicates the debate for the anti crowd. A month or two after I started vaping I argued vaping could put an end to the "Tobacco Age" and the big tobacco companies know that. Well now they are saying it. That has to be good.
Same game has been played out time and again through history, agreed. It really sucks to see a government agency so blatantly used to hijack an entire industry that was already in the early stages of self regulation and standards. Granted, there are /were a lot of players in the game who are only interested in the quick buck. But there are also some dedicated companies providing quality goods to the best of what is currently understood about these products from a health standard. There is a lot of innovation and rapid progress in tech that will be severely stifled under the new regulations. BT toyed with these products way back and ultimately walked away from them, only to see a rouge market emerge and blow up in their faces, and instead of digging in and doubling down on their efforts to get up with the times and get into the game, they latched onto lame and ineffective products in a half baked effort to compete, only to see the market growing larger and larger, in swoops the FDA to crush that market, and hand the crumbs over to the huge corporations which so far have pretty much failed at the game. This is not a normal market progression, it is an outright cartel type of business model.So ONLY the tobacco companies want to control how the game plays out?
I've been alive way too long, and watched politics (both nationally, internationally, and in the workplace) way too long, not to know that that's the "secret endgame" for most every corporation, company, politician, nation-state, etc. Heck, at a few of my jobs, I can guarantee there were quite a number of people hoping to climb over my "dead body" to get my office, promotion, etc.
I'm a realist. If there was no "Big Tobacco" then there would be "Big Vaping". meh. Eventually, all the same stuff would play out, just in a little different time and era and pattern.
Considering it's almost certainly much less harmful than combustible tobacco, what would you say to those smokers who haven't been able to quit using other methods ( including vaping ) ?
Just because it has tobacco in it doesn't mean it's a BT product. You can grow the stuff in your back yard. Most of the NETs I know of use stuff from pipe and cigar specialists.
