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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 Mar 7, 2025 TIM Alert
CIGARS
Swisher Sweets shared on their Instagram account that their BLK line of pipe tobacco cigars will now be available to be purchased as singles. The singles will be sold in resealable pouches and are promoted as being “sealed fresh.”
MODERN ORAL NICOTINE PRODUCTS
A new ad for Rogue in a retailer magazine showed a new can design. The cans are much more colorful, with the top and sides completely filled with the color that matches their flavor.