Manufacturers have been accused of intentionally appealing to children through fruity flavors, social media ads, and sleek device designs
I call it smoking. NJOY believes the key to changing perceptions of e-cigarettes is to get the King into lots of peoples hands, so they can see for themselves, and specifically into the hands of what marketing people call influencers. For a long time, electronic cigarettes have said they were alternatives, just like cigarettes, Beaver says, but its like saying youre a Porsche, then you get a panel van in your hand. Its been in the hands of people whove bastardized it and kind of got it this negative connotation of: Oh, that e-cig, Samonte said, sitting in the front row at the Duckie Brown show, which NJOY was sponsoring
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And its also one of the most divisive, because the e-cigarette issue has completely divided the tobacco control community into: the mainstream of public health, which is focusing almost exclusively on the risk to kids (of vaping), and on the other side the harm reduction community who sees vaping as a way out of smoking for a significant subset of smokers. For better or worse, fully prohibiting cigarettes is simply not in Americas future