Marlboro Maker Buying 35 percent of Juul

[Robert T. Tan]

Big news in the vaping world. Marlboro essentially bought 35% of the company that says they want to put them out of business.

Marlboro Maker Buys a Piece of Juul

 

[bombastinator]

What’s that song about “money talks” and “bullsh1t walks”?

 

[Robert T. Tan]

juul is apparently hoping to benefit from Altria's wealth of lobbying experience. I'm not so sure that "concerned parents" groups and the media will be as enthralled by the "Marlboro-juul" alliance.

 

[chellie]

I did not know this and was reading about it. I am not surprised. I smoked Marlboros for years and they were highly addictive. Juul has adopted a similar business model of proprietary highly addictive blends/formulas.

Altria even let go of 2 of the e cig companies Mark Ten and Greensmoke and they now own about 35% of Juul and invested over 12 billion - their biggest investment in the history of Altria.

You know they are going to be pushing Juul to the masses bigtime!

 

[Robert T. Tan]

They want to put Juul inserts in Marlboro packs. And Juul will have el primo shelf space everywhere. 2019 will be an interesting year for vaping.