EXCLUSIVE TO FOX: A pair of right-leaning charitable organizations have collaborated to allocate funds at significant sports competitions throughout the nation this summer to denounce and highlight an effort by Democrats to impose stricter regulations on nicotine pouches.
The groups, Americans for Consumer Protection and Building America’s Future, have initiated a campaign with a substantial financial investment, commencing with a presence at the U.S. Open golf tournament in North Carolina, where activists, equipped with placards and informational materials, urged policymakers to “Preserve Our Satchels.”
“Nicotine pouches have been discovered to assist adult smokers in shifting ‘toward less harmful options.’ Sweden has nearly eliminated the use of conventional cigarettes by ‘facilitating this shift to less harmful options’ and the nation’s willingness to permit the sale of smoke-free alternatives (such as nicotine pouches) to cigarettes,” the charitable organizations stated in a public statement.
“Rather than prohibiting nicotine pouches, alternative products to cigarettes, like nicotine pouches, have contributed to the swift reduction of smoking prevalence among adults in Sweden.”
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Activists present at the U.S. Open, advocating the “Preserve Our Satchels” slogan, distributed promotional items and gathered endorsements for a petition to halt the recent initiative to prohibit Zyn nicotine pouches.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, demanded a federal crackdown on Zyn nicotine pouches earlier this year, provoking a robust counter-reaction.
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While Schumer did not call for an outright ban on Zyn nicotine pouches, he issued a caution to parents about their popularity and declared he was requesting the FTC and the FDA to investigate Zyn due to concerns related to marketing and health impacts on children.
The U.S. Open was the inaugural event of the “Preserve Our Satchels Summer Tour,” which is anticipated to target ten similar sports competitions in the forthcoming months to “persist in fostering resistance against a prohibition on nicotine pouches.”
The press release elucidates that the Preserve Our Satchels Summer Tour will “assist in involving low propensity conservatives in the lead-up to the 2024 election” and “the gatherings they will prioritize feature a wealth of conservative pouch users who might not typically partake in conventional political events such as rallies or state party conventions.”
Future events the groups are contemplating attending next encompass UFC 303, WWE SummerSlam, and NASCAR events, including the Great American Getaway, Firekeepers Casino 400, and Quaker State 400.
