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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 Jan 9, 2026 TIM Alert
CIGARETTES
A recent article from CStore Decisions advertised the Southern Harvest cigarette brand, which is available only in Florida, Mississippi, and Texas. The brand advertises on its packaging that Southern Harvest cigarettes are “made with only tobacco + water.” The Southern Harvest brand is owned by WMLR LLC, a subsidiary of the US Tobacco Cooperative, the parent company of Premier Manufacturing, Inc. (maker of several deep-discount brands, including 1839 and Wildhorse).
MODERN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCTS
On! nicotine pouches has a paid partnership with a golf social media influencer, Nick Delfico (@nick_delfico), indicated by recent posts on Instagram. Delfico has approximately 78,000 Instagram followers. A recent video describes the benefits of using the packaging to dispose of used pouches while on the green.