Anti-smoking plan may kill cigarettes--and save Big Tobacco

[Beamslider]

Imagine if cigarettes were no longer addictive and smoking itself became almost obsolete; only a tiny segment of Americans still lit up. That's the goal of an unprecedented anti-smoking plan being carefully fashioned by U.S. health officials.

But the proposal from the Food and Drug Administration could have another unexpected effect: opening the door for companies to sell a new generation of alternative tobacco products, allowing the industry to survive — even thrive — for generations to come.

Anti-smoking plan may kill cigarettes--and save Big Tobacco

 

[puffon]

Yes, I saw that on the news yesterday.
Let's see if they are saying the same thing, after this drops on Tuesday:
National Academies to issue anti vaping report at Jan 23 webinar

 

[Bill Godshall]

Notice how the AP article interviewed lots of tobacco controllers who supported FDA's cigarette protecting vapor Deeming Ban (about their views on IQOS and FDA regulation of MRTP), but didn't interview even one THR activist who correctly pointed out that the Deeming Rule protected cigarettes by banning vapor products.