For the unaware, there is a new nicotine trend sweeping the nation decades after Joe Camel first tried to convince Americans that smoking was cool.
Nicotine pouches have become increasingly popular in recent years, preserving the most desired part of smoking tobacco (the buzz of a nicotine high) without actually inhaling smoke.
In fact,Men’s Healthdescribes the pouch trend as “nicotine’s rebrand from a public health threat to a performance tool.”
Some people — like former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson — swear by these pouches.
“He is a nicotine evangelist, if notthenicotine evangelist, and over the past five years, he sort of became synonymous with nicotine pouches,” Men’s Health wrote of Carlson.
“I love the taste,” Carlson told Men’s Health of nicotine pouches. “I love the convenience. And above all, I loved the full nicotine saturation of it. Maybe for the first time in 25 years, I felt like, oh, I have enough nicotine. And you can use it all day, from the second you wake up until the second you fall asleep. And I do.”
When the Men’s Health writer told Carlson that it sounded like he was addicted, the former newscaster’s response effectively admitted to it.
“Am I addicted? Yeah, in the same sense I’m addicted to eating or breathing or sex,” Carlson retorted. “I could stop doing it, but the benefits of doing it far outweigh the downsides. I haven’t seen a downside.”
There’s so much upside to these nicotine pouches that Carlson started his own brand of the product, looking to challenge the undisputed current king of nicotine pouches, Zyn.
That led Carlson to found ALP, a company that boasts “we love nicotine pouches, and we’re here to share that love” on itsmission page.
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