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kleinbl00  ·  3956 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dire Warnings by Big Tobacco on E-Smoking

The Chinese have a big jump on them, and because it's been a bottom-up phenomenon nobody gives a shit about branding. Either they put a big marketing push into establishing a line of oils and vaporizers (at which point every public health department in the United States vilifies them - they lost that one 10 years ago) or they make what little money they can while also protecting their margins on tobacco.

The Week had a breakdown last week. Supposedly, there are 44 million daily smokers in the US - and that number is going down. There are six million vapers in the US, and that number was zero two years ago.





OftenBen  ·  3956 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    There are six million vapers in the US, and that number was zero two years ago.

Some market-research guy just got an erection and doesn't know why.

steve  ·  3956 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like that vapers is a "word" now… even though autocorrect keeps trying to make it vapors.