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Chad Jones
Founder
snubie.com

Chad Jones (aka “Snubie”) is the founder of Snubie.com, one of the world’s leading sources for news, reviews, and information on Swedish snus, nicotine pouches, and related smokeless alternatives.

He launched Snubie.com in 2009 after successfully quitting smoking with Swedish snus. What began as a personal effort to educate Americans about Swedish Snus grew into a major platform featuring extensive product reviews, videos, and educational content that reaches millions of readers and viewers worldwide.

Jones also hosts Snubie’s PouchCast (the primary podcast dedicated to Swedish snus and nicotine pouches), and has collaborated on branded products. He is widely recognized as a key independent voice and industry resource in tobacco harm reduction and modern nicotine alternatives.

Sessions with Chad Jones

Panel
The Ban Wagon Effect: Do Bans Work
14:19 - 15:19
Product category, flavor, birthdates – are bans effective or simply creating new problems. Does legislating a ban get rid of a problem? Bans are being proposed around the world in innovative and traditional forms: phased illegalization based on date of birth, constriction of product attributes and sales channels, and, of course, outright prohibitions. Measures are gaining traction from one geography to another. But if we dive deeper, what is a ban, and what does it actually do? Bans are simple and easy to package to constituents: "Because of X, we are banning Y." Simple messaging often belies more complexity in an issue hiding below the surface. This panel explores that complexity from why bans come about, what's standardized and what's unique to them, and, most importantly, to their highly complex effects: incentivization of illicit markets to satisfy demand; economic impacts from resource diversion for enforcement to losses throughout the value chain; and frustration of overarching THR and wider public health goals tied to consumer demand shifts to illicit products, backsliding to less harm-reduced ones, and social costs of the "illicitization" of products.

Moderators

  • Dr. Jessica Zdinak

    Founder and Chief Research Officer, Applied Research and Analysis Company

Speakers