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Today on the show, if you haven't been living under a rock, you've seen people sticking little packets of nicotine into their mouths.

They go by different brand names, but the most common one is Zin.

Like Band-Aid and Kleenex, Zin has basically just become the name for a little packet of nicotine that you put under your lip.

Unless otherwise specified in this episode, by the way, when we say Zin, we just mean nicotine pouch.

But people generally fall on either side of one extreme about Zin's.

Either these little flavored packets are just kicking your addiction from one side of the street to another and seducing kids with fruit and mint flavors, or they're the second coming of Jesus and the best thing you can put into your mouth, chock full of vitamins and minerals and necessary for a successful and fulfilling life.

So what's the real story behind these addictive little packages that seem to have popped up absolutely everywhere over the last few years, from Silicon Valley startups to Sunbelt construction sites?

Here today to help me tackle this topic in the nick of time is writer and researcher Nick Pell.

As anyone who has listened to any of Nick's episodes knows, he is a man, well, you love nicotine, right?

Okay, so Nick thinks that smoking is good for you.

I'm going to say the health benefits outweigh this.

Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of at I don't want the boogers that have weird colors and I don't want to have to wash my hair again before and clothes before bed and the next day.

Yeah.

Anyway, this message was brought to you by RJR Nabisco, makers of Marlboro.