Table of Contents
All Posts
- 20 is plenty – strength limits and market regulation
- Clearing the Air Shines a Light on NGO Impact Unfiltered
- Interesting New Paper Explores Smoking Relapse Data
- Inept Limerick TD Gets the Basics Wrong on Vaping
- Media Watch: Biz Times in Pakistan Sounds a Misleading Alarm on Pouches
- Ferrari’s F1 Race Suits Features ZYN
- The BBC is Still Not Impartial on Nicotine
- Pouch Patrons #2: Slash from Guns N’ Roses
- Study on Nicotine Pouch Use in Great Britain Between 2020-2025
- Pouch Patrons #1: Shane Gillis
- Media Watch: WSJ on Pouces as Tech Perks
- Florida Court Continues Language Wars Against Pouches
- Media Watch: Radio New Zealand on Pouch Legalisation
- Media Watch: CBC Investigates Nicotine Pouches
- The Problems With ASH Scotland’s Midwife’s Guide to NRT
- The Ongoing Failure of UK Tobacco Control
- Media Watch: Observer Sensemaker on Nicotine Pouches
- COP 11 Awards Highlight the WHO’s Pious and Facile Nature
- Media Watch: Six Problems With The Independent on Youth Pouch Addiction
- Sweden is Officially “Smoke-Free”
- It’s Time to Get Behind the 20IsPlenty Campaign
- GOVERNMENT TO BACK VAPING AT COP 11
- The People of Kenya Have Spoken, and they Want Safer Smoking Alternatives
- Smoke Free Sweden’s New Report
- Interview with Mark Oates for COP11
- Looking at the latest from Rochdale Borough Council
- Are Nicotine Pouch Poisonings Out of Control?
- FDA Will Fast Track Nicotine Pouch Pilot Program
- Media Watch: The Echo Struggles Badly with Vaping Causation
- The Five Stupidest Arguments from the City of Baltimore vs ZYN Lawsuit
- Could Vapers Be Denied NHS IVF
- The Prohibitionist Delusion – Vaping Is for Enjoying Nicotine, Not Just Quitting
- Daily Pouch Money: Does Altria Belong in Your Portfolio?
- The World Conference on Tobacco Control’s Harmful Hypocrisy
- Daily Pouch Travel: Spain
- Looking Forward to COP 11 with Martin Cullip
- Media Watch: Fredrik Nystrom in the Washington Post
- ASH Late to the Game on Pouch Regulations
- Media Watch: BBC Suddenly Wants to Protect Children
- Media Watch: Are Nicotine Pouches Biblically Permissible?
- Why Should Working Brits Pay for the WHO’s Failures?
- Brussels has its Greedy Eye on EU States’ Tobacco Tax Money
- 6 Interesting Points From the Haypp UK Nicotine Pouch Report
- Interview with Federico N. Fernández on “How Sweden Quit Smoking”.
- Pouch Prohibition Reaches New Heights
- Swedish Match Asks the FDA for Permission to State the Bleeding Obvious
- Sweden Shows What Happens When the Market is Allowed to Meet Demand
- A Delusional Review of 10 Years of Australian Tobacco Control Policy
- MMA Champ Kayla Harrison Thanks Zyn for Getting Her Down to 135
- The Anti-Nicotine Grift Has Found Its Way to Web3
- Can British American Tobacco (BTI) Continue Its Monster 2025?
- Nicotine Pouches: A Credible Lifeline for Irish Vapers?
- Daily Pouch Travel: France
- Can We Rely on Youth Nicotine Pouch Use Figures?
- Media Watch: What’s with the BBC’s Anti-Nicotine Agenda?
- Nicotine as Medicine: Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease. What Science is Saying
- Smoking Is More Common Than Previously Thought — So Naturally, the UK Plans to Ban the Solution
- When Cloud Chasing Becomes Clout Chasing: A Supply and Demand Problem
- RDH Magazine on the Oral Health Threat of Nicotine Pouches
- Media Watch: NY Post in Sensationalist Article Shocker
- Swedish Government: Absurd Pouch Restrictions Restrict Free Movement of Goods in the EU
- Does Canadian Smoking Harm Reduction Depend on Pierre Poilievre?
- Four Pieces of Misinformation From a Popular X Thread about ZYN
- Media Watch: ITV Investigates Black Market Pouches
- Why Is Tobacco Control Not Getting Behind ZYN?
- New York Senate Sees Sense and Pulls Nicotine Pouch Flavour Ban
- Duke Finds Artificial Sweeteners in Nicotine Pouches
- Paper on Pouches In Pakistan Calls for More Paternalistic Public Health Policy
- Dr. Tedros, I Can’t Let You Do That: The WHO’s Strange AI Chat Bot
- PMI Stock Opens Strongly In 2025 Despite Overall Market Sluggishness
- Pragmatism vs. Ideology: The Institute of Economic Affairs on the Future of Nicotine Pouches
- The Vaping Deaths That Weren’t Vaping Deaths
- The Health Harming Snus Ban Deception Continues
- KLAR Introduces New Bioceramic Nicotine Pouch
- Media Watch: The Island Packet’s Pack of Lies
- Media Watch: The Telegraph Claims Nicotine Pouches “Could Be More Dangerous Than Vaping”
- Kenya Gets Graphic With Nicotine Pouch Warnings
- Media Watch: Taz.de Exposes Its Illiberalism With Article on Nicotine Pouches
- Considerate Pouchers and allies in UK Harm reduction have objected to proposed laws in Denmark limiting the strength of nicotine pouches to 9mgs
- Nicotine Pouches: Do We Need to Worry About Microplastics?
- New Government Research Seems Designed to Further Damage Vaping
- Should the NHS Treat Vaping Like Weight Loss Drugs?
- DSMF Survey Highlights the Presence of Pouches in 15 to 18-Year-Olds Lives
- Media Watch: More BBC Fear Mongering Over Pouches
- What is Synthetic Nicotine?
- A Tale of Two Approaches: Nicotine Pouch Policies in South Africa and New Zealand
- Spain’s Nicotine Pouch Proposals Pushing the Limits of Reason
- Nicotine Pouches Under Attack in Ireland
- The Strange Rise of Apps That “Help” People Stop Using Nicotine
- FDA Greenlights ZYN Nicotine Pouches: A Boost for Harm Reduction
- US Military Personnel Use of Nicotine Pouches is an Endorsement, Not a Problem
- Media Watch: Bloomberg News Excitedly Speculates About “Nicotine Pouches’ Downfall”
- Why the Mainstream Media Should Understand Smoking Harm Reduction
- Unpacking Claims: Does Zyn Really Cause Mouth Cancer?
- DC Attorney General’s Pouch Attack is Built on the Shakiest Foundations
- UK Politicians Should Look at the Rich Americans Who Already Influence Our Politics
- The Five Winners and Losers of BAT Becoming Predominantly Smokeless by 2035
- Media Watch: Nicotine Pouches and Sensationalism Around Snus
- The Five Great Tobacco Control Conspiracies
- Peru Makes Moves Against Tobacco and Smoking Alternative Products
- Nicotine Pouch Bans are Getting More Creative, Sneaky, and Undemocratic
- The Vacuous and Vapid Vaping Debate
- Interview with Aza from Considerate Pouchers Uzbekistan
- Is The Vaping is 95% Safer than Smoking Claim a Myth?
- 5 Reasons Why The UK Disposable Vape Ban is a Bad Idea
- Why Josh Brolin’s Excessive Nicotine Pouch Use is Something to Celebrate
- Quebec To The Future 4
- The Vaper Expo 2024
- What Does the UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill Mean for Nicotine Pouches?
- The disposables ban shows that Action on Smoking and Health has forgotten its purpose
- France Announces Nicotine Pouch Ban
- Oxfordshire County Council Address ‘Concerns’ Around Nicotine Pouches
- Could Nicotine Provide an Alternative to ADHD Medications?
- CDC Report Misses the Point of Middle and High School Nicotine Use
- Survey Says: Australian Prohibition Policies are Forcing Vapers Towards the Black Market
- Interview with Richard Pruen on the Links Between ADHD and Nicotine
- Media Watch: Are Nicotine Pouches the New Villain or a Public Health Opportunity?
- Member States Should Reject the EU’s Ideological Smokefree Recommendations
- Media Watch: Embracing a Smoke-Free World with Nicotine Pouches
- Media Watch: The Telegraph Caught With Its Hand in the Clickbait Cookie Jar
- The 6 Most Misleading Statements From TIME Magazine’s Recent Vaping Piece
- Interview with Quit Like Sweden’s Suely Castro
- Media Watch: Convenience Store Giants Challenge Health Canada’s Nicotine Pouch Rules
- GSTHR Briefing Paper: A smokefree UK? How research, policy and vapes have cut smoking rates
- Media Watch: Forbes on How ZYN Conquered America
- The Dark Side of the Street
- Trouble in Paradise: Tucker Carlson Turns His Back on ZYN
- It’s Not a Ban… But It’s a Ban
- The Future of Nicotine Pouches and the Implications of Canada’s Ban
- Polish Citizens Are Misinformed About Nicotine Pouch Harm
- Stanton Glantz Demands FDA Bans Nic Salts and Pouches in Light of New CDC Use Figures
- A Primer on the City of Stockholm’s attempts to revoke Snusbolaget Norden’s sales permit
- New Paper Analyses Nicotine Pouch Advertising
- NIH-Funded Researchers Blame Nicotine Pouch Survey Outlier Data on Teen Use
- Interview with Micheal Raetze, Director of Considerate Pouchers Germany
- Media Watch: Public Health Gibraltar’s Concerns Over Nicotine Pouches
- UK Vape Legislation State of Play – Part 2, The Disposable Ban and Vape Taxes
- Canada Forces Nicotine Pouches Behind the Counter
- Media Watch: The Growing Trend of Snus Use Among NHL Players
- The Evolution and Challenges of the Nicotine Pouch Market: From Niche Product to Mainstream Controversy
- UK Vape Legislation State of Play – Part 1, The Tobacco and Vaping Bill
- New Gallup Poll is a Mixed Bag for US Harm Reduction
- Media Watch: The Economist on ZYN
- Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal Case Study
- Media Catch: La Presse Makes Inadvertent Argument For Sensible Pouch Regulations
- ZYN, snus and the sometimes confusing world of terminology.
- Tobacco Control’s Limited Empathy For Smoking “Victims”
- Labour’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill Necromancy is a Dark Omen
- Can ZYN “Make America Great Again”?
- The WHO and GGTC Want Your Credibility
- Media Watch: ZYN Shortage Alerts Bloomberg News to the Concept of Supply and Demand
- Sweden’s Harm Reduction Success: A Model for Global Smoking Reduction
- Quit Like Sweden Comes Under Heavy Fire From TabakNee Zealots
- 5 Observations from the Eurobarometer Survey on Tobacco and Related Products
- Swedish Riksdag Lower Snus Tax by 20%, Raises Combustible Cigarettes by 9%
- ZYN Suspends Online Sales in Light of D.C. Subpoena
- Mayo Clinic: No Lesser of Two Evils When It Comes to Tobacco Use
- Nicotine Pouches Are Replacing Snuff in Iceland
- Interview with Martin Cullip
- The Social Democrats Fiddle While Ireland Burns
- The Daily Mail Thinks Nicotine is Ageing Gen Z
- Snus: Hooked on Nicotine (Channel 4) — UK Documentary Review
- World Vape Day 2024
- Young Men in Stimulant Use Shocker – PFA and Loughborough University Report on Snus
- Dispelling some misconceptions around ‘snus’ use in the United Kingdom
- What does the UK General Election mean for Nicotine Pouches?
- Part Two – Sunak’s capitulation on vaping illustrates how the UK government has descended into abject farce
- UW Medicine is Confused About Nicotine Pouches
- New Study Highlights Impact of Nicotine Pouches and E-Cigarettes on Smokers
- Sunak’s capitulation on vaping illustrates how the UK government has descended into abject farce – Part One
- Smoking Harm Reduction is a Class Issue. So Why Does Labour Support Policies That Widen Health Disparities?
- Media Watch: CBC on Nicotine Pouches
- More Evidence For The “We Don’t Have Enough Evidence” Crowd to Ignore
- Media Watch: Daily Mail’s Daily Moral Panic
- Curt Enzel: The Father of Nicotine Pouch
- Is nicotine really as addictive as heroin?
- We’ll Fight Them on the Pouches: Mark Holland Channels Churchill
- Tobacco Control Sophistry: Won’t Someone Think Of The Children?
- Nanny State Australia Has a New Enemy: Nicotine Pouches
- Vox: Nicotine pouches are “A gateway to right-wing politics”
- Media Watch: The Conversation on Nicotine Pouches
- Nicotine Pouches: A Journey Towards a Healthier Grip on Nicotine
- Under pressure, conflicted WHO allies reveal their twisted version of harm reduction
- Bloomberg on nicotine pouches in finance: “Move over Adderall”
- Media Watch: The Wall Street Journal Talks ZYN and Nicotine Pouches
- How wrong do you need to be before people ask questions?
- Good COP, Bad COP at Panama
- How aggressive tobacco control regulations hurt small businesses
- Press Release – The FCTC COP10 Agenda and supporting documents: implications for the future of tobacco harm reduction
- Media Watch: Bloomberg News on Snus
- ZYN-decent proposal: GOP pushes back against mooted nicotine pouch regulations
- The EU obscures its position on nicotine pouches and other low risk alternatives to smoking before the WHO conference COP10 in Panama
- Rethinking Nicotine with Clive Bates
- Comparing Velo and Zyn Nicotine Pouches: Your Guide to Choosing the Right Brand
- Tar and Feather Brains: Tobacco Control’s Contempt for Citizens
- Embracing Harm Reduction – A Classical Liberal Approach to Public Health in Argentina
- Smoke-Free Partnership Alumni Beclown Themselves… Again
- Researchers in Pakistan to Assess Nicotine Pouches Effect on Smoking Cessation
- Are Nicotine Pouches Bad For Oral Health?
- Media Watch: Cosmopolitan Gives Nicotine Pouches a Fair Hearing
- Do Nicotine Pouches Target Youth Users?
- Can Big Tobacco Be Reformed?
- Embracing Harm Reduction: New Zealand’s Incoming Nicotine Regulations Pave the Way for a Progressive Approach
- Nordic Sprint Nicotine Pouches
- Some Questions About The Premier League Snus “Epidemic”
- The Times Takes a Surprisingly Even-Handed Approach To Nicotine Pouches
- What is going wrong with Australia’s anti-smoking policy?
- VELO Nicotine Pouches
- The Truth Initiative: From Amplification To Outright Distortion
- UK Launch of the Sting Free Strong Blue Mint Nicotine Pouches
- Rethinking Tobacco Control: The Untapped Potential of Nicotine Pouches in Germany
- The Curious Case of Anti-Tobacco Activism, St. George, and Dragons
- ZYN Nicotine Pouches
- How Sweden Quit Smoking: A Review
- Snus Smuggling Down 80% In Finland Thanks to Sensible Nicotine Pouch Regulations
- The Mail Online Gets Snus With the Facts
- UK Government Open for Consultation on Nicotine Pouches – Here’s What You Need To Know
- Top 4 Most Laughable Parts of the WHO’s FCTC Report on Nicotine Pouch Flavours
- Health Canada Embraces Harm Reduction by Approving ZONNIC Nicotine Pouches
- Kenyan MP Tries to Ban Nicotine Pouches
- Reflections on the Conservative Party Conference (2023) and Proposed Changes to Smoking Age Restrictions
- The EU is coming for Nicotine Pouches, according to leaked documents
- The Smokefree Partnership Celebrates Driving Users Back to Cigarettes
- Biomarkers: An exciting way to assess the potential of smoking alternative products
- The Relative Harm of Nicotine Products
- Sweden Set to Reduce Snus Tax
- How short-sighted nicotine alternative legislation boosts the black market
- Lithuania Moves to Regulate Nicotine Pouches
- Hungary Proposes Draft Decree to Legalise Nicotine Pouches
- Complaint Filed Against McLaren F1’s Harm Reduction Product Advertising at Dutch Grand Prix
- 2016 Throwback – Exploring the Controversy Surrounding Nicotine Pouches: Insights from Jamie Vardy’s Euro 2016
- The (Ministry of) Truth Initiative Have Nicotine Pouches in Their Crosshairs
- Report Suggests Snus is Norway’s Best Smoking Cessation Aid
- The Guardian makes some good points… but massively misses the bigger picture.
- Ouest-France Gets it Wrong about Nicotine Pouches
- Guest Post: The Power of Nicotine Pouches: A Safer Path to Harm Reduction
- Attack on the Vapes! What does it mean for pouches?
- A Quick Guide to Recycling Nicotine Pouches
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
- Discretion is the better part of valour… but doesn’t make for great marketing
- Considerate Pouchers Launches Global Nicotine Pouch Survey 2023
- Interview with Amplicon – Producers of Småå Nicotine Pouches
- New Finnish Coalition Government Pulls Back on Nicotine Pouch Ban
- Italy Moves to Ban Online Nicotine Pouches Sales
- Nicotine Pouches: A Comprehensive Guide on a Smokeless Alternative
- Introducing Considerate Pouchers
- Scare stories: causing more harm than good
- Nicotine Pouches at The Global Forum on Nicotine 2023 (GFN23)
- The dangers of limiting access to nicotine alternatives
- Professor Karl Fagerstrom interview
- The EU Finally Considers Sweden as a Smoke-Free Model
- If World Leaders are Serious About “Smoke Free” Targets, They Should Take Sweden’s Lead
- Latvian Leaders Asleep at the Wheel When it Comes to Harm Reduction
- New Ipsos Poll on Cigarette Alternatives in Sweden
- Considerate Pouchers hosts Fika at Swedish Parliament
- The Great Smoking Escape – A Personal Story
- The EU’s Demented Attack on Harm Reduction
- The Belgian Government votes to support smoking!
- The Nicotine Pouch Market is Growing
- New GSTHR Briefing Paper addresses the tobacco harm reduction potential of nicotine pouches
Reviews
Review: Roar Labs Nicotine Pouch Range
Roarlabs are a UK (London) based company offering vaping devices, vaping liquid and most importantly for the purposes of this …
Review: ZYN ‘Citrus Mini’ (6mg) Nicotine Pouch
ZYN, known for its innovation and quality, has made a significant impact in the nicotine pouch industry. The Citrus Mini …
Review: VELO ‘Royal Violet’ (6mg) Nicotine Pouch
In the relatively new world of nicotine pouches, where new brands seem to pop up almost every week, standing out …
Review: Zone X ‘Sunset’ (10mg) Nicotine Pouch
One of the latest cans I’ve cracked open is the Zone X’s ‘Sunset’ nicotine pouches, and I must say, it …
Review: Zone X ‘Hot Beat’ (10mg) Nicotine Pouch
Zone X ‘Hot Beat’ – A Captivating Symphony of Heat and Zest Embark on a mesmerizing flavor journey with Zone …
Review: On! ‘Spicy Margarita’ (3mg) Nicotine Pouch
In a market where virtually all products have a similar form factor and packaging (with a plastic can factory somewhere …
Review: Sting Free ‘Strong Blue Mint’ (6mg) Nicotine Pouch
I had the pleasure of meeting Bengt Wiberg, the founder of ‘Sting Free‘ and an innovator in the snus and …
Review: VELO ‘Citrus Mint’ (10mg) Nicotine Pouch
I’ve always loved nicotine pouches with a citrus flavor that packs a punch! Recently, I spotted VELO’s ‘Citrus Mint’ at …
Review: Småå nicotine pouches (6mg) with bioceramic materials
After meeting Tomas Hammargren – CEO of ‘Amplicon’ at the Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN23) in June 2023 – I was able to grab …
Review: SWAVE ‘Daiquiri’ (10mg) Nicotine Pouch
As part of a recent shop from Haypp – I ordered myself some ‘SWAVE’ ‘Daiquiri’ flavoured nicotine pouches. SWAVE was …
Review: ZYN ‘Espressino’ Mini Dry (8mg/15mg) Nicotine Pouch
Pouchers, Another day, another coffee. Want a cigarette to go with that? Nah, don’t do it – there’s no need! …
Review: Loop’s Jalapeno Lime
Let’s take a look at a member of the LOOP range – produced by ‘Another Snus Factory‘ of Sweden. The …
Buying Nicotine Pouches Locally
We all know that smoking is bad for your health. But what if you really enjoy nicotine but want to …