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Tobacco Industry Monitoring (TIM) Alert
Tobacco Industry Marketing (TIM) Alerts provide weekly newsletters to subscribers to keep up to date with tobacco industry marketing and emerging tobacco products.
Excerpt from the Dec 6, 2024 TIM Alert
MODERN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCTS
Via direct email and in a post on the Instagram account for their smokeless tobacco, Grizzly advertised their new Instagram account, made specifically to market their nicotine pouches separately from their smokeless tobacco products. The brand is using a giveaway on the new account to generate user engagement via comments and gain new followers.
Loon posted several announcements and videos on Instagram about their participation in the Minnesota Turkey Drive at several locations, including in front of a Royal Tobacco retail store in Brooklyn Center. The videos highlight piles of turkeys in Loon-branded bags, with volunteers on site wearing Loon merchandise and doing promotions via megaphone.