Dissolvable tobacco
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Dissolvable tobacco is a smokeless tobacco product that dissolves in the mouth. FDA describes dissolvable tobacco products to be lozenges, oral-use strips, or sticks (some of which may look like hard candy), and they dissolve in the mouth without requiring spitting or discarding of the product.[1] Major tobacco manufacturers that sell dissolvable tobacco products include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Research into health effects of dissolvable and other new tobacco products was among the reasons of the establishment of the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration in 2009.[2]
Ingredients
Camel Dissolvables were manufactured by R.J. Reynolds from 2009-2013 for the US market.[3] The Camel Dissolvables line includes Camel Orbs, Camel Strips, and Camel Sticks, and were marketed as "a convenient alternative to cigarettes, and moist snuff for adult tobacco consumers."[4] Reynolds said that the products "will not be positioned as a smoking cessation or reduced risk product".[5]
On May 12, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Not Substantially Equivalent (NSE) orders for three Camel Dissolvables products (Camel Sticks Mint, Camel Strips Mint, and Camel Orbs Mint), determining they were not substantially similar enough to the originally approved products and therefore could not be legally marketed under the standard marketing pathway.[6][7][8]
Camel Orbs contained finely grained tobacco mixed with "additives such as water, flavorants, binders, colorants, pH adjusters, buffering agents, fillers, disintegration aids, humectants, antioxidants, oral care ingredients, preservatives, additives derived from herbal or botanical sources, and mixtures thereof."[9] Each pellet contained 1 milligram of nicotine, dissolving in the mouth in 10–15 minutes.[4] Camel Sticks product was a twisted stick the size of a toothpick that lasts in the mouth about 20–30 minutes, and contains 3.1 milligrams of nicotine.[10] Camel Sticks were designed for insertion between the upper lip and gum. Camel Strips contained 0.6 milligrams of nicotine per strip.[4] Camel Strips last 2–3 minutes on the tongue, administering nicotine through thin film drug delivery technology as used in Listerine PocketPacks breath freshening strips. A specific ingredient list naming all additives has not been made public for any of the Camel Dissolvables brands. The products were sold with two flavors, mellow or fresh/mint.[10]