Have you ever “smoked” an e-cigarette? Electronic cigarettes are the latest fad in tobacco products and is gaining a foothold not only in the United States, but globally as well. They are very popular in Europe right now.
This is the third in a series of blogs looking at e-cigarettes and the tobacco industry. If you missed the first two installments please go back and read them too.
The Almighty Tobacco Industry
In our last blog we questioned the power and influence of the tobacco industry. It has long been one of the conglomerates who could say and do whatever it pleased (Congress was bought and paid for). However, in recent years the tobacco industry’s primary customers, smokers, have been getting crammed out of social settings. The industry even agreed to put egregious warning on each pack of cigarettes depicting horrific images and equally heinous slogans.
How could such a powerful industry allow such regulation?
The true power of the tobacco industry is actually that cigarettes are still legal at all. Tobacco is a real killer. I would like to believe that an industry that provides such a huge public health crisis could never emerge in today’s litigious society. However, given that the marijuana industry is growing by leaps and bounds we just don’t know.
In the next installment we will look at just how unhealthy e-cigarettes are.