“If you look at nicotine-based vapes, there hasn't been any directly related health crisis or crises that have sprung up because of them. It's all been linked to THC and vitamin E or vitamin A acetate and the THC kind of black market pods.”
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“What we did in his advisory agreement, you know, we made it explicitly clear that we're a smoking cessation product and we will never take capital from big tobacco.”
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“I'm happy to say that we recently closed our pre-seed round of one million dollars, so I'm here today to look at potentially oversubscribing that round with investments up to 250,000 dollars to further product development while we go through our preclinical ph…”
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