Red Man

Red Man is the most popular and best-selling smokeless tobacco brand.

Production

Red Man is made by Pinkerton Tobacco in Owensboro / Kentucky. The Pinkerton Tobacco Company was founded in 1985 acquired by Swedish Match, among other things, the world's largest snus producer.

The production was recorded in 1904. The chewing tobacco was only sold in the South and the Midwest of the U.S., but broadened after the big sales success from 1954 to the entire United States and even exported.

Currently, five different varieties are available:

• Red Man Select ( less sweet )
• Red Man Golden Blend ( nicotine )
• Red Man Totems ( Golden Blend in the form of a small bolt )
• Red Man Silver Blend ( Regular without sugar and artificial sweeteners )

The chewing tobacco is sold in so-called " pouches ", ie packet and its appearance is reminiscent of wet autumn leaves, as the tobacco leaves are only coarsely shredded. Hence the name "Loose -leaf " comes from. However, " plugs " are available, while the loose leaf tatters were pressed into a bar. A pouch contains according to the manufacturer " 3 Oz " ( three ounces ), which is about 85.5 grams.

Target group

The primary goal group have always been nature-loving people such as hunters, fishermen, farmers, cowboys. This is also reflected in the advertisements relevant trade magazines such as:

• "Things I'm Particular about: Trucks, Guns, Dogs and Red Man! "
• "The sun rises. The earth turns. I chew Red Man! "

A large target group also baseball players in the professional league MLB dar. precisely the role model of professional athletes, consume the Red Man, often bring their fans, mostly children, also to consume. In addition, it has here in the last few years a trend has endorsed that makes chewing tobacco acceptable in high society circles. But Red Man also sponsoring today the "Red Man All American Pulling Series", a tractor -pull competition and the " Red Man All-American Bass Championship", a fishing competition.

Taste and usage

Red Man tastes like a mixture of raisins, dried plums and a slightly sweet touch that comes from the Soßierung in honey.

From the bag with three or optionally more or less fingers is removed, the desired amount of chewing tobacco and alternately chewed in the mouth and placed in the jaw. The resulting tobacco - saliva mixture should be spat out, as the tobacco juice when it is mixed with gastric acid, can be harmful to the gastric mucosa.

Depending on Kauintensität chunk of tobacco is spit out after about half an hour.

Health

Red Man, like all ( chewing ) tobacco products suspected to be harmful. However, the harmfulness compared to cigarettes, Smokeless Tobacco or other Kautabaken is significantly lower. The number of krebserrgenden substances is given in ppm ( parts per million). Regular Red Man has the same as snus 1.8 ppm, a Marlboro cigarette about 12 ppm and between 7.5 and 12.8 Smokeless Tobacco ppm. Beech-Nut chewing tobacco contains 4.5 ppm of carcinogenic substances.

However, the nicotine in Red Man present can lead to heart and circulation problems, as all the products in which nicotine is included.