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Tobacco firm Philip Morris calls for ban on cigarettes within decade:
The chief executive of tobacco business Philip Morris International has called on the UK government to ban cigarettes within a decade, in a move that would outlaw its own Marlboro brand.
Jacek Olczak said the company could “see the world without cigarettes … and actually, the sooner it happens, the better it is for everyone.” Cigarettes should be treated like petrol cars, the sale of which is due to be banned from 2030, he said.
Government action would end the confusion felt by smokers, some of whom still thought the “alternatives are worse than cigarettes”, Olczak told the Sunday Telegraph. “Give them a choice of smoke-free alternatives … with the right regulation and information it can happen 10 years from now in some countries. You can solve the problem once and forever.”
Philip Morris International (PMI) recently said it wanted half its turnover to come from non-smoking products as it morphs into a “healthcare and wellness company” with executive pay tied to its new mission to “unsmoke the world” by phasing out cigarettes.
Nonetheless the company has come under fire from anti-smoking campaigners who accused it of hypocrisy after it launched a £1bn takeover bid for Vectura, a British pharmacy company that makes asthma inhalers.
(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Monday July 26 2021, @08:47PM
Truth be told, they're not. They found a way to sell you the same amount of tobacco, in the same cig-looking package at 5x the markup. And you need a couple of hundred bucks for the device to use it. They realized that people who are still smoking are unlikely to start vaping, as they already would have by now. So they found a way to make more money on each cig. What's interesting, is there is no claim from them that it's any healthier than a cig.
https://www.pmi.com/smoke-free-products/iqos-our-tobacco-heating-system [pmi.com]
Now, vapes are indeed healthier, and they do sell them, and have been selling them. Outlawing cigs however would greatly increase their bottom line, as the hardcore smokers will switch to the IQOS. In fact, they have even bribed insurance companies to provide discounts for users of IQOS, which are not given to the much healthier vape users.
>vapes are *much* healthier
smoked for 15 years on and off, haven't smoked for close to 10 now. My doctor says he can't detect that I was a smoker. Now, I'm sure some damage is done, but looks like over a decade the damaged cells have been replaced, and the shit in my lungs fully cleared out.
but that makes sense qualitatively. it's the smoke - any smoke, even paper smoke or weed smoke, that's the bad part. vg and pg actually has a chance to help the lungs clean themselves out - it's like lotion and clean mucous. In fact, the doctor's suggestion was that vaping helped the lungs heal faster. After which he told me it's still a good idea to quit that too, but cutting out just one slice of cake per week would likely have more health benefits than quitting vaping. Apparently mucous isn't cleared out as well when you vape, which can lead to a lung infection. But not to things like cancer, which is what we're concerned about here.
I use pure VG by the way - apparently pg dries out your lungs, while vg loosens the cell membrane stickiness for outer cells that are damaged or dead, and helps you get the lungs cleaner. The key is to use a ph-neutral flavor mix, and pure vg. Using an acidic flavoring or pg will still damage your lungs (which is what all those studies saying vaping is bad are talking about).