[asdff]

Article is pretty weak honestly. Claims these products are heavily marketed but I just don't see any advertising for them at all really. Where do these things even get advertised?

Facts are people like a nicotine buzz. It goes well with work and the lack of spit or any smell means it is compatible with basically every job, whereas with a vape you'd have to find a moment to inconspicuously hit it and zero the hit if you can't blow it out openly. You can bring a pack of this stuff anywhere you can't smoke or vape normally. It goes well with drinking. It goes well with smoking weed. The biggest advertisement is probably someone next to you throwing back a pouch and asking if you want one. The second biggest advertisement is the pouch you see spat out in the urinal. They really don't have to do much. It sells itself on its own merits. People have been fond of stimulants for thousands of years now. That isn't going to change anytime soon.

[cma]

Lots of podcasts advertise them, I think Tucker Carlson, one of the biggest podcasts in the world, has his own brand or promotion deal. I don't know if he is popular with young adults or still has his fox news demographic.

It's much easier to control dose and taper off than cigarettes. Doesn't seem that much worse than something like coffee. I think it has some heart risks, but gets rid of the cancer risk of cigarettes and dipping.

[asdff]

Podcasters are willing to chirp for whatever pr department will pay them a couple grand for a segment. Doesn't mean that chirping is effective really.

I bet tucker carlson's support has converted exactly zero users towards these products. I still think they are sold basically on their own merits and from the fact they are in every gas station and convenience store on the planet at this point, and people really want to use nicotine because again, stimulants have a lot of merits and utility for people.

[cma]

It's TBP's fastest growing brand, 50/50 joint venture with Carlson. Mostly sold online, not in stores, lending towards podcast promotion over seeing in a convenience store. I'm not talking about the whole nicotine pouch trend here, I'm just responding to the claim here that he's driving 0 sales, and before to the claim nicotine pouches aren't heavily marketed.

For mass TV advertising etc. you don't see it a ton because of pretty heavy restrictions (not as strict as tobacco which is completely banned).

[thin_carapace]

coming from a big supporter of smoking, downplaying the addictive nature of nicotine is insidious of you; most people have no idea what sort of a demon it can become. its also insidious of you to state that pouches 'get rid of the cancer risk' considering that any nicotine product very much does have a cancer risk.

[cma]

> considering that any nicotine product very much does have a cancer risk.

Source? The carcinogens are from other parts of tobacco than nicotine. Pouches are newer, but nicotine gum and patches have been studied for years.

[thin_carapace]

I admit error and must have conflated cancer from tobacco pouches with cancer from nicotine pouches