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[Kate]

This is interesting, gives an idea of how tobacco companies are trying to move into the harm reduction field and away from combustion - http://www.bat.com/g...pdf?openelement

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“We aspire to reduce the harm caused by tobacco use by evolving
our products to a portfolio of commercially successful lower risk
products, to meet consumer and societal expectations”

[Kenny]

Interesting Kate. I wonder how long it will be before they start promoting the selling of e-cigs.

[Kate]

One of the tobacco companies tried to market an ecig in the States in 1987 but the FDA kicked it off the market by classing it as a medical device. It mustn't have been profitable even then to go through medical regulation or they wouldn't have disappeared it.

The market has changed forever with the new ecigs, I don't think they'll go to war on them so much as try to get into the action and bring out their own again.

[Kenny]

Kate, on 30 May 2011 - 07:05 PM, said:

One of the tobacco companies tried to market an ecig in the States in 1987 but the FDA kicked it off the market by classing it as a medical device. It mustn't have been profitable even then to go through medical regulation or they wouldn't have disappeared it.

The market has changed forever with the new ecigs, I don't think they'll go to war on them so much as try to get into the action and bring out their own again.

Yes that's a fair point as long as they leave us alone

[szaxe]

Kate, on 30 May 2011 - 07:05 PM, said:

The market has changed forever with the new ecigs, I don't think they'll go to war on them so much as try to get into the action and bring out their own again.

This is my view point. But I think they are already in the action with nicotine and it wouldn't surprise me if some e cig products recieved a little funding, if you know what I mean

Big companies are greedy so yes they will always want more of the action, but whatever happens they still have the lions share with the licenses they hold for producing commercial tobacco/nicotine.

Edited by szaxe, 30 May 2011 - 08:22 PM.

[szaxe]

Kate, on 30 May 2011 - 07:05 PM, said:

The market has changed forever with the new ecigs, I don't think they'll go to war on them so much as try to get into the action and bring out their own again.

This is my view point. But I think they are already in the action with nicotine and it wouldn't surprise me if some e cig products recieved a little funding, if you know what I mean

Big companies are greedy so yes they will always want more of the action, but whatever happens they still have the lions share with the licenses they hold for producing commercial tobacco/nicotine.

Edited by szaxe, 30 May 2011 - 08:30 PM.

[szaxe]

Oh, if you think about it when the tobacco companies tried to introduce a type of e cig before it was jumped on very quickly because of their past record.

If the tobacco companies had introduced the e cigs we now use, how long do you think they would have lasted? Isn't it opportune for us/them that e cigs were introduced by a chinese man with no apparent global protection allowing a totally free market.

Think about it, why hasn't the tobacco companies piled in with there own brands of e cig products? Think about it.