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Snus, Skoal Flavor Bans, and Long Island Lip-Packers
from The October Surprise · #14
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
1 minExtended riff on chewing tobacco culture on Long Island, Bloomberg-era flavor bans on snus/Skoal, and the twisted logic of marketing dip flavors to kids versus 'broken people.'
- 3:31New York outlawed flavored snus and skoal, so you can't get citrus skull or apple skull anymore.
- 3:44Tim wonders why they banned the flavors but not the product itself—probably because they think flavors appeal to kids.
- 4:06Their strategy is basically to market skoal only to broken people while keeping it unpalatable to children.
- 4:20Skoal's alleged corporate position: we want to aim toward children and get kids starting to pack a lip.
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