In talking to the Vape shop guy in the store next to mine, Big Tobacco owns most of the vape industry. It has individuals designing products for it, but it is backed financially by Big Tobacco. So, the attacks on Vape is just an ongoing attack on Big Tobacco, which has a history of being perfectly honest with us, right?
BTW, the pipe tobacco industry and Big Tobacco, do not get along, as it was Big Tobacco that sic'd the FDA on them. They did the same to chewing tobacco, and then when they bankrupted them, they swept in and bought up that industry, or so that is how I understand it.