Nicotine Pouch Panic: How Government Keeps People Smoking
Published: April 28, 2026
Duration: 5:27
Nicotine pouches, like Zyn, are safer than smoking.
But now, politicians want to restrict the pouches.
Here's why that's a problem.
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Some states ban flavored nicotine pouches.
Others slap big taxes on them. Some as high as 95%
That doesn’t protect people. That's keeps more people smoking.
Because: “If you make the safer alternative more expensive," Guy Bentley of the Reason Foundation explains, "more cigarettes will...
But now, politicians want to restrict the pouches.
Here's why that's a problem.
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Some states ban flavored nicotine pouches.
Others slap big taxes on them. Some as high as 95%
That doesn’t protect people. That's keeps more people smoking.
Because: “If you make the safer alternative more expensive," Guy Bentley of the Reason Foundation explains, "more cigarettes will...