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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 Apr 25, 2025 TIM Alert
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GEEK BAR is advertising two new lines of disposable e-cigarettes on their website: A new edition of their Pulse disposable e-cigarette, Savers Edition (referring to Life Savers® gummy candy) which comes in five flavors: Drop Sour Savers, Orange Mint Savers, Pineapple Savers, Strawberry Savers, and Wild Berry Savers. A new edition of their Pulse X disposable e-cigarette, Jam Edition, which is offered in Blueberry Jam, Orange Jam Slush, Peach Jam, Raspberry Jam, and Strawberry Jam.
MODERN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCTS
A number of online retailers have been promoting a new line of nicotine pouches (“G-Pulse”) that they state are from the popular e-cigarette brand, Geek Bar, although the product is not yet featured on Geek Bar’s website. However, in a post on Geek Bar’s branded Instagram account on April 17, the brand seemingly teased G-Pulse pouches by showing an image of someone holding the pouches with a caption stating, “can you guess that that guy’s holding?”