Nicotine pouches, the new vapes? | Illawarra Mercury | March 20, 2024 - video Dailymotion

Dr Celine Kelso explains what a nicotine pouch is.

Transcript

00:00 We have just purchased two generic brines that we can find easily on the market.

00:12 Just no specific reason why we picked those two amongst all the others.

00:16 Then we picked two different flavours to try to see when we do the chemical analysis if there were any main differences.

00:22 So we have a tobacco flavour as well as a mint flavour.

00:26 Just this berries and you name it.

00:30 So this area, if you get through this, that's what the pouches look like.

00:36 So they are little kind of paper looking little pouches that have some kind of smooshy consistency.

00:46 A little bit like play-doh.

00:48 And it's in fact crushed up cellulose.

00:50 So what would be by cellulose is the equivalent of what would make paper.

00:54 So it's made out of a non-digestible type of chemical.

00:59 And it's soaked with nicotine and it's added with flavours.

01:05 So this one particular one would have the cellulose as well as the nicotine.

01:13 Brian says 20 mg.

01:16 So on the front as much there is on that.

01:19 And on the... oh I'll have to close it.

01:21 We have a medium strength nicotine.

01:26 And this one is called extra strong.

01:28 And when you read the fine print there's actually more nicotine in this one than there is in this one.