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Swedish Match Rebrands Red Man Chewing Tobacco
CSP Daily ^ | 1/26/22 | Hannah Hammond

Posted on 06/10/2022 4:50:38 AM PDT by AT7Saluki

“Understanding that an essential part of being America’s best means being a leader, Swedish Match worked diligently over the past several months to make changes in response to our heightened awareness and our desire to be more inclusive,” said Joe Ackerman, vice president of marketing. “Consumers and diverse agency partners were selected to participate in the rebranding research. It was critical and valuable for us to gain these insights and recommendations to develop America’s Best Chew packaging.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chew; fagman; fagmantobacco; redman; spit; tobacco
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Somehow missed this until I reached for a plug yesterday. Wonder if the Red Man chief ran off with the Land o Lakes squaw?
1 posted on 06/10/2022 4:50:38 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
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To: AT7Saluki

Red Man was my Grandpa’s favorite.


2 posted on 06/10/2022 4:52:47 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.q at)
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To: AT7Saluki

Is it still “the pick of the pros?”


3 posted on 06/10/2022 4:57:06 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Black Ukrainian Coronavirus Vaccine Abortions Matter. It’s called democracy, folks. It’s who we are.)
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To: AT7Saluki

I think it’s Swedish Match that also has a brand called “Rape”. I really enjoy my snüs. They sell a dry, pouched Swedish snüs in Japan since a couple years ago. It’s finally the only real tobacco snüs that I can get without going all the way downtown to specialty shops that cater to the diplomat crowd. I remember redman when I was young. Good stuff.


4 posted on 06/10/2022 5:01:39 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: AT7Saluki

Does excluding recognition of a minority group ever serve the interest of inclusivity?


5 posted on 06/10/2022 5:04:32 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

My late granddad used a spitoon.

My late grandma used to threaten to bean him with it if he missed.

Don’t know if she ever did, but grandad loved his chaw...


6 posted on 06/10/2022 5:09:01 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: AT7Saluki

They just better not mess with Prince Albert in a can.


7 posted on 06/10/2022 5:18:13 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: AT7Saluki

When will my brand {Levi Garrett} be protested by Jewish folks?


8 posted on 06/10/2022 5:50:09 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: AT7Saluki

My friends on the rez used to joke that tobacco was red man’s revenge on white man for introducing them to alcohol.


9 posted on 06/10/2022 5:54:28 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I worked with an old timer from Texas who always wore an oversized Carhartt denim coat that had 4 large pockets. Each pocket had a pouch of Red Man.

1 day I asked him why.

He said “pocket ain’t no good got not no Red Man in it”


10 posted on 06/10/2022 5:54:40 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: mewzilla

At 82, my father still chews Red Man. He says he started when he was 12 years old in rural north Georgia. I used it myself when I was younger, but gave it up long ago.
It seems current leaders of the Native American tribes are happy with the elimination of references to the American Indian in product marketing and sports teams. They currently consider it to be demeaning or inconsiderate, but in most cases it seems that the references are usually in an association with strength, skill, nobility, pride, bravery, honor, winning, or other positive attributes. It will be interesting to see over the next decade or so whether there are regrets if recognition and respect for the Native American population declines because the primary associations of them or media portrayals evolves to gambling, poverty, substance abuse, or other negative connotations.


11 posted on 06/10/2022 5:58:50 AM PDT by Smnz
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To: AT7Saluki
Another Indian canceled, soon enough we will forget Native American Indians ever existed.

12 posted on 06/10/2022 6:08:24 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: AT7Saluki

I prefer Levi Garrett.

But then Red Man should now change its natural , organic product name to “Green Man.” Then we can convine AOC to chew it!


13 posted on 06/10/2022 6:09:45 AM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: AT7Saluki

West Virginia cole slaw.


14 posted on 06/10/2022 6:14:56 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I’m a Levi Garrett man. I had to switch to snuff several years ago because they started taxing tobacco in Texas by weight to fund rural doctors. A pouch went from $4 to $10 overnight. My funniest story is about the time I bought a can of Skoal in Lake Louise, Alberta. I knew I was doomed when they reached into a safe below the counter. $25.


15 posted on 06/10/2022 6:15:17 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Smnz
It will be interesting to see over the next decade or so whether there are regrets if recognition and respect for the Native American population declines because the primary associations of them or media portrayals evolves to gambling, poverty, substance abuse, or other negative connotations.

Well, if the good and the noble is removed, there ain't much left but the trash and stains.
16 posted on 06/10/2022 6:17:12 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

It used to be my favorite. Had to give it up. But it brings back memories.


17 posted on 06/10/2022 6:19:07 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (We should worry less about who we might offend and care more about who we might inspire.)
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To: Smnz

Grandad lived to tinker and his barn was a treasure trove of neat stuff. He used his tobacco tins to store things in. He had lots of tins.


18 posted on 06/10/2022 6:31:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Smnz

“in most cases it seems that the references are usually in an association with strength, skill, nobility, pride, bravery, honor, winning, or other positive attributes”

The elites want to crush those attributes in all men that they rule over—that is what this is really about....


20 posted on 06/10/2022 6:43:36 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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