You just described AEMSA, SFATA, and TVECA.
You just described AEMSA, SFATA, and TVECA.
You can use the ECF search to find out more information regarding each of them.
As far as I'm concerned, AEMSA is someone most of us can support.
But SFATA, maybe not so much, however I'm not sure.
And TVECA is four-letter word around here.
Don't forget to say "Sorry Big Pharma" too, because the biggest loser from the growth of e-cigarette market (and you switching to vaping) is Big Pharma, not the tobacco companies. (Remember, the nicotine you use comes from tobacco, too.)
The tobacco companies will benefit from having a far safer alternative to smoking to sell to their customers, so they will get into the market as has already begun. My prediction is that they will profit MOST by selling a high-quality product that keeps people coming back, rather than trying to quit or going back to cigarettes, because e-cigs will eventually have a much higher profit margin. They will work for a better product and work for transparency in product quality and safety in order to regain consumer trust. The tobacco industry will fight high taxation on e-cigarettes, along side groups like CASAA, because low cost keeps the product appealing to their consumers. They won't want a repeat of what is happening with e-cigarettes. They are already fighting to get smoke-free tobacco to be allowed to remove misleading warning requirements that falsely suggest that smoke-free is as hazardous as smoking. This is the first step in getting recognition for low-risk tobacco products, which can be truthfully argued should not be subject to punitive "sin taxes" meant for hazardous products. Many tobacco companies have also been reducing marketing budgets for cigarettes and moving the funds to promoting smoke-free alternatives to counter the ever expanding smoking bans. So they will want their e-cigarette products to be a satisfying alternative to traditional cigarettes so they don't lose customers.
This will result in standard sales taxes on e-cigarettes, but it will also raise the standards for quality and production. Unfortunately, this will result in many smaller companies going out of business, because they will be unable to meet the standards - which will most likely be set in stone by the FDA. However, it could end up being as basic as food-handling standards. It's entirely possible OSHA will also get involved, as employees handling pure nicotine to make the solutions is extremely hazardous. So they will enact safety protocols to which many small companies may not be able to adhere.
Big Pharma, on the other hand, will lose the revolving door of customers who repeatedly use their NRT and other smoking cessation "treatments" that fail 93.6% of the time and result in keeping smokers smoking. Then they get sick and need Big Pharma's "smoking-related disease treatments," which are the real big moneymakers. If people feel that e-cigarettes relatively safe, they won't feel the need to quit and they also won't get smoking related diseases.
Just my
It is painful to see all the newer folks blaming Big Tobacco for everything.
I would like to see far more tobacco companies jumping onto the e-cig bandwagon.
