Tell Young People the Truth: E-Cigarettes and Vaping Flavors Help People Quit Smoking (Alternet)

[Liberal Veteran]

43. The article does point out some interesting facts though.

Price is another issue, said Lamb, the Atlanta smoke shop manager. His customers can pay about $10 for a Blu throwaway e-cig that’s equivalent to about one pack of traditional smokes. Or, they can spend $21 for a nail polish-sized bottle of nicotine liquid and a refillable cigarette -- complete with a battery charger that plugs into a computer -- that equals a carton’s worth of puffs.

The trend hasn’t escaped Lorillard. The company has recruited users with its disposable e-cigs only to lose some to refillable vaporizers, CEO Kessler said during a May 13 investor conference hosted by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) The devices are larger and have more battery power, allowing them to create more vapor, he said.


It seems to me that big tobacco made a mistake. They assumed people would stick with their disposable crap when a cheaper and better alternative is readily available in the form of refillable vaporizers.

You could be right that it is a fad for some, but for a lot of people who switched from smoking tobacco to vaping, going back to tobacco is off the table. From my own experience after getting used to vaping, the taste of a regular tobacco cigarette is repulsive (not to mention the inconvenience, the mess, the stench, the coughing, phlegm overproduction, etc...). Of course, there is also a huge internet market for e-cigs as well. Many of them are cheaper than local brick and mortar stores even though you have to pay some postage. All of them are a better deal than the cigarettes and the mass-market disposable e-cigs. True, I live in a state where regular cigarettes are 7 to 8 dollars a pack now. So that might be why vaping stores have some staying power here.