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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 Apr 3, 2026 TIM Alert

CIGARS

Backwoods announced on their Instagram page the release of a new flavor, Irish Cream. The limited edition flavor appears in the post in a 5-pack.

ENDS

An email from Geek Bar updated fans on the brand’s recent festival appearances, including Shaq’s Bass All-Stars Music Festival in Texas on March 21st. The brand claims to have reached 25k attendees at the event.