Background Oral nicotine pouches (ONPs) have rapidly gained popularity in recent years. While ONPs likely expose users to fewer toxicants than cigarettes, they contain nicotine and may initiate, ...

The sales of ZYN, On!, Rogue and VELO account for 99.8% of total sales. ONPs with explicit flavour descriptors outsold those with implicit flavour descriptors by more than eight times. The ‘chill’ ...

Smokeless nicotine products are benefiting from both longtime cigarette companies and the convenience chains that sell them.

But the company that makes Zyn argues that taxing pouches will drive Rhode Islanders back to burning tobacco to get their nicotine fix, and cigarettes are much worse for your health than pouches.

Philip Morris International Inc. PM is accelerating its shift from traditional tobacco to reduced-risk products, with strong momentum in its flagship offerings — IQOS and ZYN. In the first ...

But the company that makes Zyn argues that taxing pouches will drive Rhode Islanders back to burning tobacco to get their nicotine fix, and cigarettes are much worse for your health than pouches.

How much could Zyn pouches be taxed in RI? The Other Tobacco Products tax that would be applied to pouches in the budget is 80% of wholesale value, which Erkkila said might roughly double the ...

But the company that makes Zyn argues that taxing pouches will drive Rhode Islanders back to burning tobacco to get their nicotine fix, and cigarettes are much worse for your health than pouches.

FDA stressed that while Zyn is now legally allowed to be marketed in the U.S., it does not mean the products are safe. The products are produced and marketed by Swedish Match, a Stockholm-based ...

Golden said another funding source being considered was a state tax on Zyn, a tobacco-free nicotine pouch. Golden said the tax could generate up to $30 million per biennium.