This is a game-changing product in the e-cigarette category
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You probably had Kings and thought they were Pall Mall since you were too young to read.
no they said Pell Mell on the box instead of pall mall. I actually found them a few years back at a dollar store.
Ah yes - I see them now. Just like Dad's...
Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising
Damn ,those are it. I never got a toy surprise. Man what mixed feelings, on the one hand, going into the gas station with my dad and getting a pack of Pell Mells Just like my hero. And on the other hand what that eventually led too.
Well, dang! I thought you were going to tell me about the little toy lung you got one time.
I'm going to give the Vuse a try as soon as it's available. I have little doubt that it's going to be as underwhelming as Blu and njoy kits. I also have little doubt that the cartridges won't contain the advertised capacity, and I expect the flavor to be "meh, not bad but..."
I already have nearly indistinguishable flavor substitutes for both Blu and njoy tobacco flavors. It's only a matter of time before I can duplicate Vuse, or come close enough.
I already have nearly indistinguishable flavor substitutes for both Blu and njoy tobacco flavors. It's only a matter of time before I can duplicate Vuse, or come close enough.
We used to get chocolate ones that were wrapped in rice paper. Mmmh.I sincerely hope that isn't what you got from my posts, if it is I apologize.
And those candy cigarettes are delicious, I remember the older ones that had like powder sugar on the inside, and a hole on the cherry end with a red tip. You'd blow through the candy cig and it would blow the powder sugar out to imitate smoke coming from the tip.
Now all I can find are the ones that are basically just solid, weird loaf-looking sticks that look like they were extruded from a spaghetti maker.
EDIT: looks like leithan beat me to the punch on the smoke puffing ones
Remember- big companies who advertise heavily don't care if you actually USE their product for any length of time- they only care if you BUY their product. Advertising (and anything that comes with it, like marketing and PR) are concerned with the SALE. After that, it's your problem...
So when you see all the cig-a-like companies advertising that e-cigs are "just like regular cigarettes", you know they're not going for satisfied customers long-term, they just want your money. Because e-cigs are NOT like regular cigs, and they know it. But that won't make a sale, so they tell smokers what they want to hear- which is that nothing will change for them.
From big tobacco's perspective, they're making money either way. If you try their e-cig, they make money. If you stop the e-cig and go back to smoking analogs, they make money. Win-win. In fact, the worse their e-cig is, the less likely people are to stick with it and the more likely they are to go back to analogs. So I wouldn't put big money on BT putting a whole lot of effort into their e-cig product.
So when you see all the cig-a-like companies advertising that e-cigs are "just like regular cigarettes", you know they're not going for satisfied customers long-term, they just want your money. Because e-cigs are NOT like regular cigs, and they know it. But that won't make a sale, so they tell smokers what they want to hear- which is that nothing will change for them.
From big tobacco's perspective, they're making money either way. If you try their e-cig, they make money. If you stop the e-cig and go back to smoking analogs, they make money. Win-win. In fact, the worse their e-cig is, the less likely people are to stick with it and the more likely they are to go back to analogs. So I wouldn't put big money on BT putting a whole lot of effort into their e-cig product.
If cigarette sales were stable or climbing in their largest market, I'd agree with you. However, tobacco companies are seeing year-to-year decreases in smokers and weak or declining sales. They know that some of those lost sales are going to e-cigs and that the trend will probably continue. They almost have to get in to protect market share, and protecting market share means not losing consumers to competitors, so while we'll probably be unimpressed with whatever they offer, they'll come up with something that is the least offensive to the greatest number of people.
The Blu Classic and NJOY Bold are two good examples of "meh, not bad but..." flavors that are easily duplicated out here in the wild.
Call me crazy and I'm just throwing this out there ...but I see big tobacco incursion into e-cigs as a positive. I would rather have their $$$ and clout on our side, working towards the common goal, rather than against us. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" kind of thing.
The problem is that they aren't on any bodies side. They are on their own side. They would love to see heavy regulation that would prohibit Internet sales. They dont need Internet at all to sell their stuff to billions of people.
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