tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430685.post2970648810921296003..comments2024-03-28T03:48:12.109-04:00Comments on make the logo bigger: And Philip Morris didn’t come up with this?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430685.post-58412162573314141822009-08-28T03:57:45.574-04:002009-08-28T03:57:45.574-04:00I vaguely recall Philip Morris playing with techno...I vaguely recall Philip Morris playing with technology decades ago as described in the book Barbarians at the Gate. They broomed the idea of the smokeless cigarette. I think it was because such a development would suggest there was a problem with "normal" cigarettes. Of course, we know how right they are.VicHoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03801592731429920762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430685.post-29828922338381632822009-08-27T11:51:14.362-04:002009-08-27T11:51:14.362-04:00I have my doubts about this:
1. People who smoke ...I have my doubts about this:<br /><br />1. People who smoke aren't that concerned with being healthy. If they want to be healthy, they'll try to quit.<br /><br />2. The smoker-icons don't care about being healthy. The Marlboro man is not the kind of guy who hopes he doesn't get emphysema in twenty years—he's the kind of guy who dies shoeing a horse, falling down a canyon, or during a bar fight. The skinny, black-clad hyperintellectual smoker doesn't care about his health because he doesn't care about anything. That would be lame.<br /><br />3. You've got the same stigma from non-smokers ("How can you be addicted to something so stupid?") plus a new stigma from smokers ("You like sucking off a battery to get your fix?"). That leaves the e-smoke buyer pretty much alone.<br /><br />4. The law won't catch up with reality: people probably <i>will</i> get in trouble for smoking these where smoking is banned. Somebody out there will interpret the law liberally enough to do it.<br /><br />These feel like a good idea, at first. But they're only appealing to non-smokers.Byrnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01811615997458838025noreply@blogger.com