Possibly new mainstream gateway to vaping by Big Tobacco

[laksakite]

'New' hybrid 'heatstick' devices flying off shelves in Japan

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...hup-nation-takes-vaping-big-way/#.V9veQ00rLDc

Also being test marketed in Italy

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-24/marlboro-kicks-some-ash

 

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[davroz]

Its hilarious ... we spend years getting out from under tobacco and big tobacco companies, and they flash one new toy and the banking pundits (Credit Suisse et al) are praising them to the skies. They've tried to take the base patent for vaping and been pushed back, so the next move is to demonise vaping and claim a hail Mary for non-combustive tobacco products that retail for as much as their current packets of cigarettes.

There's a old North Korean proverb "Willing hands find chains to bind them" .... looks like we're expected to rattle our way to the grave like good clones then

 

[mannikon]

http://www.e-lites.co.uk/
Owned by Japan Tobacco since 2014 - http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/leads-deals/benson--hedges-owner-acquires-7256925

"Sales of e-cigarettes are only about 1 percent of the $863 billion tobacco market, according to researcher Euromonitor International."
That's a shitload of money

 

[Mr Numpty]

"Paul Riley, who joined Philip Morris in Sydney in 1988 and became its Japan unit’s president last September. “For me, it’s like a no-brainer. The biggest thing is we know that smoking kills."
Cunt.


"The ¥9,980 device, which works by inserting a tobacco-containing HeatStick into a cigar-shaped heating device"
Christ.