Jump to full article: 14 WFIE (Evansville, IN), 2009-05-27
Author: Posted by Sarah Harlan
Intro: As smoking bans become more popular, tobacco companies are developing new products and facing new criticism.
Snus' are tea-bags, filled with mint-flavored tobacco. They fit neatly between your teeth and gum, with no need to spit.
The tobacco stays in the bag.
Tobacco companies say Snus' have become so popular, they're taking the next step, totally dissolvable tobacco.
For traditional smokers it will solve all kinds of problems.
"They don't have second hand smoke," Tommy Payne with R.J. Reynolds said. . . .
R.J. Reynolds will soon test test three new products: Camel sticks: that dissolve as you suck them, minty tobacco strips: that look like breath strips and orbs: flavored dissolvable tablets, that some say look and taste like candy, and there's the thing.
Critics say R.J. Reynolds is doing what it did with Joe Camel, marketing not to adult smokers, but smoker wanna-bees.
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