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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 6, 2026 TIM Alert
CIGARS
Backwoods promoted their new Strawberries n’ Cream limited-edition cigarillos on Instagram.
ENDS
Geek Bar promoted new Halloween-themed flavors for the Pulse 2 model, Haunted Blueberry and Hallow Nana, on the website and Instagram. Regarding authorization, Geek Bar’s website claims that they “have submitted PMTAs to the FDA for our products, including no flavored products aside from tobacco and menthol pods.”