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The National Confectioners Association’s inaugural “Getting to Know Gum and Mint Consumers 2025” report found that gum and mints account for 13 percent of all confectionery sales. Generational turnovers are reshaping subcategories, with Millennial and Gen Z consumers driving virtually all growth in gum and mints, according to the report. As such, total gum and mint sales are projected to reach $6.7 billion in all channels by 2030, an increase of nearly $1 billion. Since 2020, annual gum sales have grown $1.2 billion to $3.9 billion while that of mints increased by $462 million to $3.9 billion.

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) - When the gunshots started at Umpqua Community College, some people mistook them for falling books. But Army veteran Chris Mintz quickly recognized the threat. "He was in the military and knew what it was," said Mintz's aunt, Wanda Mintz. He was hit in both legs, his stomach, his back and in the hand, but the bullets did not hit any of his vital organs. He has two rods in his legs and is going to be in a wheelchair for the foreseeable future, she said.

In Knoxville, hundreds of calls and email have flooded into the University of Tennessee bookstore. In Brooklyn, N.Y., the company behind the satirical mints has sold out until the end of the month. And on eBay, the tiny tin cans of mints are going for $30 and higher.

chicagotribune.com No surprise: Disappoint-mints strike liberals as bad taste Democratic Tennessee legislator gets them removed from university bookstore's shelves John Kass August 5, 2011 Corrections and clarifications: In a Page 2 column on Wednesday, John Kass incorrectly asserted that by raising the federal debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion, President Barack Obama had grabbed "reality by the hair" and kicked it repeatedly "in the behind." But Thursday's stock-market plunge of more than 500 points proves that reality remains immune to the president's charms. The Tribune regrets the error. So what do you give a beleaguered president who just ate a mess...

Man arrested for crack use, because he had white mints in his mouth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_SBnZXCaGI&feature=email