Both are flavored oral nicotine products that did away with the tobacco leaf. Nicotine toothpicks and pouches are very similar. People are tending to move away from tobacco leaf products, both combustible and non-combustible, and move to products that deliver nicotine. ANDS are a fairly new subcategory of other tobacco products (OTP) and are increasingly gaining customers. These are non-combustible alternative nicotine delivery systems that would otherwise not be able to be categorized into current and obsolete product groupings. Some of these products I like to call “ANDS” products. ![]() The rise of smokeless tobacco options and ENDS products in the past 10 years is a clear indicator that consumers aren’t quitting their nicotine altogether, but instead they have become open to finding their nicotine in other products. Other consumers have moved into smokeless tobacco products such as dip and spitless snus. Many consumers switched from cigarettes to ENDS (electronic nicotine delivery systems) such as Logic, blu and Juul. While consumers are quitting cigarettes in droves, most would agree they are not quitting nicotine. Modernizing categories and planograms will be a necessity for convenience retail chains looking to hold onto revenue. Now, there are new products out there that fit into the growing "ANDS" (alternative nicotine delivery systems) category, such as nicotine toothpicks, pouches and dip (no tobacco leaf present in any of these). Cigarette sales are declining year after year, while vape and smokeless products have been on the rise. ![]() The tobacco industry is changing at a rapid pace.
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