NICOTINE pouches have become big business for British American Tobacco in the cigarette giant’s strategy shift towards a “smokeless world”. Like its rivals, the maker of Rothmans, Dunhill and Vogue cigarettes is trying to solve sliding sales of fags with what it calls “reduced-risk” products such as snus, little pouches of tobacco placed on the gums. It is already making £1billion from non-cig sales. BAT yesterday said it expects a stronger second half with even bigger profits from its new products, helped by the success of its non- tobacco Velo nicotine pouch brand. But boss Tadeu Marroco warned illegal disposable vapes were denting sales of its own e-cig products, which include Vuse. BAT i... [Read more]