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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 Feb 6, 2026 TIM Alert
CIGARS
White Owl recently teased two upcoming products on their website. The first is a new addition to their “Tips” line. It is an unflavored cigar with a wood tip, as opposed to the plastic tip the other cigars in that line have. The second new product is the “Mountain Berry” cigar. It’s described as a “crisp, elevated” flavor, and it will be available for a limited time.
MODERN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCTS
As reported through several sports news outlets last month, Grizzly Nicotine Pouches have become an official partner of NASCAR and all NASCAR-owned racetracks for the 2026 season, including the naming rights for racetrack campgrounds. Branding on Instagram and the Grizzly website indicates that Grizzly is the “official nicotine pouch” of NASCAR. To promote this new sponsorship, Grizzly is running a season pass giveaway through their website.