Nope, they own or control the vape companies. Philip Morris owns 35% of Juul, and R.J. Reynolds owns Vuse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuse
This is what this all is about. No one controls chinese sources yet, but oh god do they want to.