Personally I think it's the nrt's made by big pharma that are threatened moreso then tobacco. PM has the resources and distribution network in place to seize the market. The only reason these products can be marketed like they are is because they aren't in 7-11. All it would take is for PM to drp a couple mil and they could easily put all of us out of business. People will always smoke tobacco. What this threatens is those crappy overpriced nrt's that don't work.
Agreed. The tobacco companies can get on the wagon if they want to. It would cost them but they could recover. Pharma on the other hand is scewed and this is their own fault. If they were not charging reduculous fees for their NRTs they could have come out with something but who is going to pay their rediculous prices?
Someone had commented to me that I have to consider the approval costs that they pay and I say BS to that. Conveniently their NRTs will run you about the same as it costs to smoke. They pushed the price right to the wall because they could. Well now pay the price.
Nestran