Electronic cigarettes give
smokers a nicotine fix without the stink, tar, fire or carbon monoxide of real
cigarettes. They may be a cheap, healthy way to help smokers quit. So, I'll give you three guesses which
industry is behind the global push to clamp down on e-cigarettes. If you assumed concerned doctors or
“consumer-rights advocates” are the driving force for regulation in Europe and
the U.S., then you haven’t been paying attention to way profit and politics
interact.
If you said Big Tobacco,
close, but no cigar. Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, and Lorrillard all jumped in
the e-cig game in the past two years. They’re not opposing regulation (the big
guys rarely do), but they’re pushing back on the most onerous rules. Big Pharma is the real foe of e-cigs, and Big
Government is their weapon of choice — on both sides of the pond…..To ReadMore…..
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