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[LewAz]

Type "pharmaceutical companies marketing and lobbying" in the search engine of your choice.

 

[Endor]

There are several pharmaceutical companies that manufacture nicotine. I know from first-hand knowledge that at least one of those companies, who makes their own nicotine for their NRT products, is actively looking to capitalize on the e-cig market as another revenue stream (one that they feel may be larger than NRT in the near future).

I contend that NRT profits are a pittance compared to other, much higher margin, products. NRT patents expired long ago, and hence are now generic and OTC, so the margins are thin.

According to Reuters, in 2014, NRT grew 1.2% to $2.4B in sales worldwide (about $900M of that in the US). Realize that this total sales number is spread amongst many competitors, such as Pfizer, Novartis, and Actavis.

Compare that to a product like Humira, a single product sold by a single pharma company, with $11.5B in sales in 2013.

I have a hard time believing that pharma companies are spending a lot of money lobbying against e-cigs. I think their money would be better spent elsewhere, like dealing with Obamacare issues.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

You're forgetting the other sales that are smoking related, about $150 billion from ongoing cancer, COPD, emphysema, bronchitis and the other smoking related sales. They have good reason to want people to keep smoking.

Desk Murderers all.

 

[CarolT]

You're forgetting the other sales that are smoking related, about $150 billion from ongoing cancer, COPD, emphysema, bronchitis and the other smoking related sales. They have good reason to want people to keep smoking.

Desk Murderers all.

That's scientific fraud, courtesy of the ACS, AHA and ALA, based on falsely blaming smoking for diseases that are really caused by infection.

 

[aikanae1]

I think it has more to do with whose pocket the money ends up in. tobacco companies and independent vaping do not equal pharmacy profits. Nicotine suppliers are a small blip on the screen compared to profits.