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who won't die from smoking-related disease (as e-cigarettes cannot cause cancer, heart disease or arterial disease).
The loserswill be: The tobacco industry, until they themselves change and move into the ecigarette market and there are clear signs many tobacco
corporations are planning to do this .The pharmaceutical industry, who will lose tens of millions in NRT (quitsmoking drug) sales, and hundreds
of millions in lost sales of pharmacotherapies for sick smokers (chemotherapy drugs, COPD drugs, cardiac drugs, vascular drugs).
Government, who will lose substantial tobacco tax revenue. The pharmaceutical industry will most likely be the biggest loser as ecigarette sales
immediately take a chunk out of NRT sales (nicotine patches, gum and drugs) because if smoking is virtually harmless, there is simply no need to
quit. This is a $1bn global market. People enjoy smoking and if they have an even more enjoyable, safer alternative, there is little reason to buy
expensive (and sometimes dangerous ) quitsmoking medicines. Because the quitsmoking pharmaceutical trade is so lucrative, pharma has put
millions into trying to have ecigarettes banned. Then, of course, there is the fortune made in the supply of chemotherapy drugs and similar treatments
for sick smokers. This drug trade is probably worth at least a hundred times the NRT trade and as smokers convert to ecigarettes, and therefore the
sickness and death rate starts to drop, pharma's drug income will be hit terribly hard. In Sweden, every smoker who switched to Snus was one less
who got sick or died from smoking. The number of smokers was reduced by 45%, and the death rate fell by a similar amount fairly convincing proof
of the value of Harm Reduction.
threatened, and the pharmaceutical industry stands to lose billions of dollars in worldwide sales, pharma is absolutely desperate to have ecigarettes
taken off the market. You will see their money placed judiciously in many areas that might have been thought of as immune to 'pressure'. Currently
they are spending millions on trying to get electronic cigarettes banned, as you might expect.