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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 Nov 15, 2024 TIM Alert
CIGARS
Backwoods cigars has recently teased the upcoming release of a new blend on their Instagram page: a flavor called “Smoked Caramel," described in the post captions as “real sweet" and "better when smoked."
SMOKELESS TOBACCO
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has renewed authorization for eight General Snus products to be marketed with a reduced risk claim. With the renewal, these products may continue to be marketed using the modified risk claim, “Using General Snus instead of cigarettes puts you at a lower risk of mouth cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.”