His conversation sounds like William Burroughs reading Finnegans Wake
Business Registration and Licensing Cigarette production requires multiple licenses, including manufacturing permits, excise approvals, and pollution control certificates
Yves Saint Laurent is arguably the most successful of these (even though he admitted in a 1968 interview he smokes, but not his namesake brand, as he does "not like the flavour"), though many other brands have been marketed, from time to time, in select international markets: Givenchy, Versace, Pierre Cardin, Christian Lacroix and Cartier (a jewelry house)
I think they now have more evidence to endorse e-cigarettes. At the same time, Rigotti and other experts cautioned that no vaping products have been approved in the U.S