Why a Tobacco Giant Is Backing a Tough New Antismoking Bill

[NutttSo]

just found this on yahoo Why a tobacco Giant Is Backing a Tough New Antismoking Bill

Smoke Signals: Why a Tobacco Giant Is Backing a Tough New Antismoking Bill - Yahoo! News

 

[surbitonPete]

Is there any country on this planet that puts honesty and morals before money?? Is there even a religion that genuinely does?? or does money always rule.

 

[NutttSo]

this is what I find intresting

Philip Morris opened a 450,000-sq.-ft. (42,000 sq m) research facility in Richmond, Va. The complex is filled with hundreds of employees, including scientists studying new tobacco technologies that Philip Morris is hoping to get through the new FDA approval process.

could they be thinking of making and testing their own PV ?

 

[rejoice]

That article makes it sound like Philip Morris is all caring about a smokers health. LOL.
They are looking at a bigger picture of money. They do not care about a smokers health. They never have. Its like pete said,MONEY.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Is there any country on this planet that puts honesty and morals before money?? Is there even a religion that genuinely does?? or does money always rule.

No, but there's no question that America is FAR more obsessed with money than most other nations.

 

[Surf Monkey]

That article makes it sound like Philip Morris is all caring about a smokers health. LOL.
They are looking at a bigger picture of money. They do not care about a smokers health. They never have. Its like pete said,MONEY.

Philip Morris cares about one thing: keeping their dominance of the industry. They're the largest tobacco producer in the world. They knew that regulation was coming. Their only option was to write the regulations themselves, and that's what they did. Along the way, and for good measure, they wrote their main competition (R.J. Reynolds) out of the game by banning the last three years' worth of new products. Win win for PM. They get the exact regulatory bill they want and they get products that have a real chance of cutting into their margins removed from the market. Plus, no need to spend a bunch of money on R&D anymore, since any new products are forbidden.

 

[Jim Davis]

Philip Morris cares about one thing: keeping their dominance of the industry. They're the largest tobacco producer in the world. They knew that regulation was coming. Their only option was to write the regulations themselves, and that's what they did. Along the way, and for good measure, they wrote their main competition (R.J. Reynolds) out of the game by banning the last three years' worth of new products. Win win for PM. They get the exact regulatory bill they want and they get products that have a real chance of cutting into their margins removed from the market. Plus, no need to spend a bunch of money on R&D anymore, since any new products are forbidden.

I wonder what Phillip Morris will be charging for 36mg nic juice?

 

[Surf Monkey]

I wonder what Phillip Morris will be charging for 36mg nic juice?

It'll be interesting to see how long it takes for PM and RJR to come out with their own e-cigarettes. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it happen pretty quickly. In fact, it's sort of amazing that they haven't already. After all, their market is being eroded by smoking bans nation wide, and these devices are immune from those bans. I suppose it has more to do with the inertia of large corporations. Everything has to pass all sorts of management hurtles in order to reach release. My money is on the idea that both have had e-cigarettes in development for years and are just waiting for the right conditions to release them.

Pricing? I'm guessing that if it happens, the hardware will be cheaper than what we get now, but the consumables will cost at least twice as much.

 

[midian]

I agree Surf Monkey, the United States is probably the most obsessed over money; however you forgot the part about how American’s love to try and make someone feel good about being screwed over…. In the end, everyone knows its about money – but we can’t forget, as long as the terms used sound good…it’ll be rubber stamped.

 

[happily]

It'll be interesting to see how long it takes for PM and RJR to come out with their own e-cigarettes. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it happen pretty quickly. In fact, it's sort of amazing that they haven't already. After all, their market is being eroded by smoking bans nation wide, and these devices are immune from those bans.

far from immune......but that's a different story

One of the rockefeller's explained it best(I forget which one)

"Give me control of a country's money, and I care not who writes it laws."

 

[Surf Monkey]

but we can’t forget, as long as the terms used sound good…it’ll be rubber stamped.

Totally. Image politics is the mode of the day. No Senator or Congressman wants to be smeared by his opponent as having opposed a "ban on deadly smoking that kills YOUR CHILDREN."