Those who will never have a chance = those still smoking combustibles.
I think your picture on the tightly controlled, ineffective BT supplied POD systems or heat not burn systems are all that are going to be left. For those still smoking I just do not see that working well. Probably not much better than the rubbish BP puts out.Those people will not have a shot at something that really worked.
Sorry it apparently bothers you that I really feel for those people. I have spent years trying to help people make the switch and get off cigs.
lol. Smile my friend.
It doesn't "bother me" and I'm concerned too.
I'm trying to discuss this abstractly, theoretically, and rather emotionlessly.
I ask because I'm not sure we had/have the same vision of the future. So we (as in all here) need to debate what we think that will look like given our current information. It's almost as bad as predicting the weather 3 weeks out.
I don't think they will have much choice LONG TERM. But how long of a term?
They will get off cigs, regardless of the means, eventually. Or die early before all this long-term stuff unfolds. I don't know how fast "the powers that be" will make this unfold. Be it God, money, politics, or fate. Random interactions. I don't care what you call it.
Look, here's what I'm saying:
Cigs will go bye-bye. Some will grow their own. Others will participate in a black market. But most will switch to something. We've had a decade for us early adopters. And like many of us have said, there's always unflavored.
But BT doesn't have to stop making cigs. Hell, they could tie up any changes in courts for decades. They didn't have to participate in FSC stuff. They didn't have to self-reform and predict a "smoke free future" but they did. Call is social pressure. Call it ethics, call it repentance. Whatever it is, it is. They play the long term game. And it's a trade off.
They'll trade off the combustible market, but they need control...somehow...of the nic market. And frankly, I can come back to you and say "what about the
tobacco farmers? What about the
tobacco plant workers? What about the investors? Jobs. Jobs. Jobs." but in the end, we did too good of a job. And now youth uptake of nicotine addiction...in a different form...is increasing.
So if it's less effective for smokers, it's also a bit less desirable for non-nic-addicts. And Like I said, the smokers soon won't have any choice, they just don't know it yet.
Nic free cigs next? That's been on the table too.
The future is smoke free. But the way we did it...we're the sacrificial lambs as well as the developers/prototypes/experimenters/lab-rats. In a way we've won...we've ushered in a new era...but we won't keep the market. The money and industry still has its influence. And we're still being spoon-fed excuses here, but the master critical path is still there and ongoing. Step by step.
