Zyn Isn't Sin |
Zyns are super popular.
They are little pouches people tuck into their lip to get a hit of nicotine.
Zyn has competitors, like Velo and On!, but Zyn has most of the market.
Young people love the pouches.
They are safer than cigarettes.
Their nicotine is addictive, but nicotine isn't what makes tobacco deadly. "(The) mix of chemicals -- not nicotine -- cause the serious health effects ..." says the FDA.
That's why the FDA supports nicotine pouches.
Still, some anti-tobacco activists oppose all nicotine use.
"It's a pouch packed with problems!" Sen. Chuck Schumer tells cameras.
Some states ban certain flavors, and impose high taxes. This makes pouches about as expensive as cigarettes. That's dumb.
"It's not the nicotine that kills you. It's smoking," says Guy Bentley, director of consumer freedom at the Reason Foundation, in my new video.
"You shouldn't treat a nicotine pouch the way we treat cigarettes. The more expensive you make the safer product, the more the........