Cross post from here:
7th person has died from vaping
At the current moment, I'm thinking it's a market driven thing (as in big money).
See Zoid's post starting here:
Deeming Regulations have been released!!!!
and mine later down.
So it's a back-room deal between Wall Street investors, big tobacco, and maybe big pharma. In order to get PMI and others to give up tobacco cigs, they have to make a deal. <<--- read that again, important.
Tobacco is a legal protected thing. Cigs too.
So what to do? If they want to ban cigs, they have to do TWO things: give an alternative AND importantly get the participation of BT. BT is already immune from more suits, and you can only educate so much. So what to do?
Give them the vaping/gadget market and TRADE it for the cig market. So they produce (and get a lock on) the vape/heat/veep/xyz products with rigorous testing and qualification requirements, produce their patented products that get produced while the other stuff gets vilified and is "untested".
So it's a TRADE. It's a DEAL. Dollars. Money (and investors and BT) talks. And frankly, they have the $$$ to acquire and/or test however they need to if they own the marketplace.
That post with links to their site about their "tech" and a "smoke free future" I made was really educational for me.
And it makes sense that avid non-smokers, ANTZ, etc. would hop onto whatever hype as leverage, hastening the transition to a "smoke free future". Whereas in the UK market, they compete in the vape area....with flavors.
So the unstated goal here, isn't actually anti-vape, it's anti-cig, with the grass-roots vape industry as a casualty of war.
