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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 Jun 6, 2025 TIM Alert
CIGARS
White Owl recently promoted an upcoming cigar flavor on their website. The flavor is called “Red, White, and Berry” and is described as a vibrant berry blend and has a pack that is reminiscent of rocket pops. The new flavor will be a limited-edition release.
ENDS
In the process of routine surveillance, we noticed that the Geek Bar Instagram account currently linked on the brand’s website, @geekbarvape, returns a “page not found” error. However, another account, @geekbar_official, currently linked from the brand’s official X account, continues to provide recent updates. It is uncertain whether the brand will link this new account on their website.