Nicotine Pouches as Medicine: What Canada, Australia, France, and Brazil Reveal About the Pharmaceutical Classification Model
As governments consider how to regulate nicotine pouches, one model is becoming increasingly important: treating oral nicotine products not as general consumer goods, but as medicines, natural health products, poisons, or pharmaceutical-style nicotine replacement therapies. This approach is most clearly visible in Canada, where Zonnic has become the leading example of a nicotine pouch authorised…