Surely the tobacco industry looked around the world and saw—like Kodak looking at digital photography coming along—a huge threat to it. Of course it is now trying to muscle in on the act, but this is a good thing. If it starts making electronic cigarettes and becoming more profitable, it will give up on other cigarettes. The reason it got into this industry was because it saw it as a threat.
Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016
Proceeding contribution from
Viscount Ridley
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 4 July 2016.
It occurred during Debates on delegated legislation on Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016.
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