The Beginning of the End?
USA market reaction to CDC reported trends predicting the end of vaping
-
by Dave Cross
Share on:
Several online sources compared rates of smoking with the trends in vaping this week. Despite a significant fall from 42% to 18% in smoking rates since the beginning of the 1960s, it ignores that there are still 42 million adult smokers in the USA waiting to quit.
The lack of support for vaping in the States is striking given the scale of suffering from cancer. In purely financial terms, smoking costs the American economy an estimated $289billion (£181billion). Revenue income from tobacco sales comes to $26billion – meaning a total conversion from smoking to vaping would save America $263billion each year.
Market investors have expressed dismay that, given the lack of Food & Drug Administration regulation, take up rates of vaping has only gone from 3% to 8% of the population.
The investment concerns, sparking the prediction of the end of vaping, comes from looking at companies selling cigalikes. Those aware of the UK data produced by Professor West and ASH UK will know that there is a constant move from Generation 1 to advanced vaping devices. Anecdotally, many new converts from smoking to vaping are skipping the cigalike stage entirely leaving the product mostly being used by dual-fuel users.
Market unease is resulting from a recent press release from the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention, and organisation keenly opposed to vaping, who claim that take up of electronic cigarettes has stalled over the last 12 month period and current vapers only stand at 2% of the population.
Given the nature of business ownership in the advanced vaping market, this is unlikely to have any effect at all – but the likes of Lorillard and Reynolds American can expect to see a drop in demand for their shares.
Investors are also running shy of the market due to uncertainty over potential regulation and the on-going accusations of it being a gateway product designed to tempt the young. The question regarding the morality of listed ecig companies is amplified for conservative fund managers due to the impact of advertising campaigns hitting 256% more children and 321% more young adults between 2011-2013.
Not so much the beginning of the end for vaping then – rather the end of the beginning for people looking to get rich quick off listed cigalike company shares. What is interesting is that the concerns being expressed by stock market analysts has gone unanswered by the large cigalike manufacturers and, with mergers due in this area, maybe we will see this sector of vaping reduced even further over the next year.
Photo Credit:
Top Photo credit: lindsay-fox via photopin cc
Dave Cross
Journalist at POTVDave is a freelance writer; with articles on music, motorbikes, football, pop-science, vaping and tobacco harm reduction in Sounds, Melody Maker, UBG, AWoL, Bike, When Saturday Comes, Vape News Magazine, and syndicated across the Johnston Press group. He was published in an anthology of “Greatest Football Writing”, but still believes this was a mistake. Dave contributes sketches to comedy shows and used to co-host a radio sketch show. He’s worked with numerous start-ups to develop content for their websites.
Join the discussion
Lockdown Beneficiaries
While millions lost out through lockdown, be it financially or emotionally, one group won out: Big Tobacco
-
by Dave Cross
JUUL To Move From Toxic California
JUUL has been on a cost-cutting drive since the last quarter of 2019 and now announces it is moving out of San Francisco
-
by Dave Cross
Anti-Vape Attacks Fuel Big-T Stocks
The ongoing anti-vaping attacks, through communication and legislative action, is fuelling a boost to tobacco company trading stocks
-
by Dave Cross
VPZ Celebrates Landmark Birthday
VPZ celebrates its 7th birthday with the announcement it will invest £12million in a High Street growth plan – promoting vaping to smokers and creating jobs
-
by Dave Cross
