Posted on 06/06/2023 2:44:15 AM PDT by fruser1
Olczak believes that a move on cigarettes similar to the combustion engine would have to be on a timescale that gives consumers and the industry time to respond and change.
‘Looking at what the UK is doing in the car industry, saying that as of a certain year you are not allowed to produce petrol cars, we could have this with tobacco too,’ he told the Mail.
Olczak was himself a smoker for two decades until he tried the brand’s IQOS heated tobacco device, which costs £39 for a starter kit.
Products such as
heated tobacco and e-vapes now account for nearly 35pc of total annual revenues at PMI.
Olczak, 58, also drew an analogy with the switch to energy-saving lightbulbs. ‘In different countries they had a number of investment schemes to promote research and development to see whether you can produce light with much less energy,’ he said.
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Jeff Immelt got the government to ban incandescent bulbs in an attempt to have GE corner the LED bulb market.
The world was a better place when most people smoked. That’s not a comment about how good smoking is. It’s a comment about how much freedom we have lost.
They have needle-swap sites for druggies (government-run). Is tobacco the next “industry” to be nationalized via vape-pen swap sites?
That did not work well for GE, either.
Correct. Many people will not buy woke GE products. Same with Government Motors. I’ll never buy a GM product again … that’s another easy boycott, since people don’t buy cars often.
“The world was a better place when most people smoked.”
That was back when most people attended church, too.
Don’t worry, the WEFtards have a plan to ensure nobody on the globe gets too much food either.
Bingo. Glad I stopped smoking 40+ years ago. But your statement is a truism
They don’t want you to smoke tobacco but Marijuana is just fine. It’s a lot easier to control a drugged populace.
Big Government is okay with this because they’ve already switched to a new revenue stream.
Marijuana.
“I’ll never buy a GM product again … that’s another easy boycott, since people don’t buy cars often.”
Yeah but Fords and Chrysler’s still suck... I guess you’re going offshore. But with Japanese vehicle production having solid footing on U.S. soil you’re not really going off shore are you? And with U.S. manufacturers using foreign designs with American labels affixed... That’s global economics! Too far gone and deeply entrenched.
obesity = sucrose and high-fructos corn syrup
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2009/06/104177/sugar-poison-says-ucsf-obesity-expert
“In addition, Lustig claims that fructose is just as bad as alcohol in causing fat storage in the liver — and in causing fatty liver disease.”
I would like to see more long term studies on that issue.
“I would like to see more long term studies on that issue”
In stead of standing there with your arms folded and demanding proof, you could take the 3-5 seconds to search for the answer.
While your not owed it or deserve it, I took the 3-5 seconds to satify my own actual real curiosity.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/abundance-of-fructose-not-good-for-the-liver-heart
I don’t know if it’s scientifically proven but it’s claimed that nicotine curbs the appetite.
Roll out the standard jokes for marijuana and getting the munchies. Never have understood how they can demonize tobacco and push for legalization of mj.
Cirgarettes are less dangerous to the soul than lgbt crap.
Those vapes will kill you faster than any tobacco product.
There actual real living people who believe we are going to stop having ICE cars and trucks on the road within a decade? Can’t fix stupid I guess.
It might happen in the next 50-100 years but only if a cheap reliable source of energy storage is invented that can charge to 80% in 10 minutes or less.
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