Phillip Morris’ concerns are misplaced. They have made a strategic decision that it is easier to manipulate the U. S. Congress to act against these niche entrepreneurs than it is to persuade the U.S. Congress to repeal what they have already done and get out of the nanny-state business altogther. Truly an unholy alliance and one that demonstrates that we the people have allowed the various governments to seize way too much power.
No, my dear FRiend, you are underestimating the goal of PM - which is to control, through government fiat, the tobacco industry in all of its form.
PM welcomes the nanny-state with open arms. PM knows they are safe as long as they go along with anything any level of government desires - they put up token resistance, but that is just for show. They know as long as they eventually appear to be caving they will continue to exist and be the de facto tobacco monopoly.
Or as TGO would describe what both of you are saying, this is CRAPITALISM! Crony Capitalism, which is just as offensive to individual liberty as marxism...