By Melissa Locker

April 19, 2018

Apparently, people aren’t that interested in sucking the tobacco out of Phillip Morris’s new iQos offering. The cigarette giant had hoped the smoke-free product would help propel it into a new era, but as Bloomberg reports, after it spent $4.5 billion on development, customers just aren’t buying it. Shares in the cigarette company have fallen as much as 18% after its latest earnings report, in what may be the company’s worst day since it spun off from Altria in 2008.

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At the beginning of this year, Philip Morris announced it was going to give up cigarettes by selling other addictive, yet possibly less cancer-causing products. To that end, it introduced the iQos into 38 markets, hoping customers in Japan would jump at the chance to use a vape pen that vaguely looks like an Apple product. But customers weren’t interested.

It wasn’t just Philip Morris that suffered a decline: Shares in Altria, the company behind Parliaments, Marlboros, and Virginia Slims, slid nearly 8%, and British American Tobacco shares fell nearly 6%.

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