4.4 • 350 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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As the popularity of cigarettes has slid in the past couple decades, Big Tobacco has been searching for a new hit product. Now, they think they’ve found it: nicotine pouches. FT reporters Clara Murray and Mari Novik explain how nicotine pouches became popular, and whether they’ll become the sector’s newest addiction or if they will be snuffed out.
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For further reading:
The new nicotine hit that could save Big Tobacco
Big Tobacco stock rally reveals uncomfortable truth
Big Tobacco will take heat on its smokeless transformation
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0:35.8 | There's a new product that has tobacco companies buzzing. |
0:39.6 | They're called nicotine pouches. |
0:42.0 | It's about the size of like a piece of chewing gum and you put it under your upper or lower lip |
0:46.5 | and it holds against the gum for maybe half an hour to an hour and the flavors and nicotine |
0:52.2 | in it dissolve out of it. |
0:54.0 | One of the more well-known brands of these nicotine pouches is called Zinn. |
0:59.0 | And I was curious just how popular these pouches are. |
1:02.6 | So the other day, our show's producers took a walk along Manhattan's west side to find out. |
1:07.9 | There's a park over there alongside the Hudson River, |
1:10.5 | where a lot of young professionals |
1:11.9 | frequent during lunchtime. One of my really good friends in our office actually takes Zins as a use |
1:19.4 | like to focus. That's what he uses it for. Instead of taking Adderall or another ADHD medication, |
1:26.1 | you would take a Zinn. I used it for, I would say, a full year, more or less. |
1:31.3 | And I liked it a lot, so yeah, it felt like smoking 10 cigarettes at once. |
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