"Tim+" wrote in message
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It's fine for those genuinely trying to stop but has it cured your nicotine
addiction? Just look at the flavours and packaging of the stuff on sale now
and tell me you think that they're not trying to hook kids in.

But the fact that you can get these things with varying grades of nicotine,
including none at, all opens up all sorts of possibilities.

The assumption seems to be that people only ever smoked
at all before, because they were addicted to nicotine. But if that
were the case then presumably everyone would be happy smoking
just any old rubbish - as admittedlt some of the king size virginia
filters undoubtedly were/are. To some people at least.

But maybe some people just like smoking for the sensation
of breathing in flavoured smoke.

But because nicotine has always been present in tobacco
its been impossible, up to now, to isolate the two components.

Maybe breathing in nicotine free strawberry or chocolate flavoured
vapour may be a pleasurable experience in itself.

Which isn't to say that it isn't an advantage to be selling something
which contains an addictive substance like nicotine to anyone.

However if that were the only motivation, then with so many
players in the market, and with relatively low start up costs,
none of them could be sure that in fanning that addiction
they weren't simply increasing the market for their
competitors. And so to maintain market share all the players
would either need to engage in price cutting, or as in the case
of illegal drugs resort to shootouts in the streets.


michael adams

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Tim