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Tucker Carlson starts a nicotine-pouch company after deciding Zyn is 'not a brand for men'

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Tucker Carlson, for years, has talked up the Zyn nicotine pouch to whoever would listen. Now, however, he is renouncing the brand and says he plans to launch a competing product called Alp.

The fallout between the media personality and the tobacco product comes down, predictably, to politics. Carlson is upset that employees at Zyn’s parent company Philip Morris donated money to Kamala Harris. He told The Wall Street Journal that he now thinks Zyn is a “ladies brand” and “not a brand for men”.

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