Nicotine will still be blamed for it all.
Here's how I see the future...
Big
tobacco has a couple of
cigalikes with "
tobacco" flavor.
They will be taxed at a rate which makes them too expensive for regular use.
This is when the story of nicotine will change.
And Big Pharma will start rolling out their nicotine-based drugs.
Nicotine will become a good thing.
Smoking still bad.
Cigalikes too expensive and not covered by insurance.
And they are gonna spend millions making and marketing overpriced e cigs to get people to not buy them?
Big Tobacco will make a good little profit on cigalikes.
People will use them where they can't smoke, in their houses, in their cars.
They will have created the very dual-users they claim to fear.
Some people will even try to use them to quit smoking.
Although those people will find them to be too expensive for long term use.