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With all the negative history behind biased studies and scare mongering funded by large tobacco companies, it seems they are changing their stance due to massive growth potential in the vaping market.
Whilst this is not news to anyone, it got me thinking how long will it be before they start pushing out the little guys which lets face it has largely occurred already due to other corporations and cheaper alternatives from oversees, however I’m talking about the hostile/non hostile take overs and lobbying of the government to enact legislation only they with their deep pockets can absorb in order to force the market in a certain direction.
On this note I wonder how many of their products released to date are focused on pod type systems and ways to bind vapers switching to kick one addiction, only to replace that dependancy on a business model created around disposable or proprietary systems where you have to keep returning to use their product...lobbying centred around this area I suspect will be a large focus of their activity.
So wanted to create a watch hopefully our community will contribute towards in the pursuit of keeping tabs of the goings on of these companies i.e. who they own, who they knocked off the playing field along the way and legislation they are trying to push through good or bad.
Whilst this is not news to anyone, it got me thinking how long will it be before they start pushing out the little guys which lets face it has largely occurred already due to other corporations and cheaper alternatives from oversees, however I’m talking about the hostile/non hostile take overs and lobbying of the government to enact legislation only they with their deep pockets can absorb in order to force the market in a certain direction.
On this note I wonder how many of their products released to date are focused on pod type systems and ways to bind vapers switching to kick one addiction, only to replace that dependancy on a business model created around disposable or proprietary systems where you have to keep returning to use their product...lobbying centred around this area I suspect will be a large focus of their activity.
So wanted to create a watch hopefully our community will contribute towards in the pursuit of keeping tabs of the goings on of these companies i.e. who they own, who they knocked off the playing field along the way and legislation they are trying to push through good or bad.
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