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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 Aug 1, 2025 TIM Alert
CIGARS
A number of new cigar products were announced in July. On Instagram and via email, Swisher Sweets announced a new flavored cigarillo, Mango Blaze. The limited-edition flavor is sold in 2-packs. The new flavor isn’t on the Swisher Sweets website yet. Backwoods also introduced a new cigar on Instagram as part of their “Select” line.
MODERN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCTS
Altria recently held an earnings call where they talked about the performance of their products and future plans. On! was specifically mentioned, as a portion of the call was dedicated to the pouch line’s growth in the past year.