In 2002, after a period of struggle following the dissolution of Thunderboat Row and the Miami go-fast scene, the company was purchased by Skip Braver, who brought it back from the brink with refocused go-fast designs and new offshore center console fishing boats
Walker, then president and chairman of the board of American Tobacco and presently board chairman and chief executive officer of American Brands, delivered, before a meeting of merchandisers called the Fourteenth Annual Marketing Conference, an oration entitled What the Chief Executive Expects from His Top Marketing Man, in which he told his audience: And now American Tobacco is part of American Brands, and the company, with Walker still at the dual controls, is deep in the fruit-juice business as well as the tobacco business, and is planning to enter the soap and hand-lotion business
McMillian et al
Fast-forward to January 2020 and the world knows that the Mysterious Illness was no more than people using unregulated black-market ingredients in their e-liquid
The advertising of these products is banned on social media
Collectively I'd describe them both as avant-garde, slightly under the radar and full of indie kitsch