{"id":3597,"date":"2021-11-08T06:41:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T05:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/firms-under-fire-for-using-uk-influencers-to-push-nicotine-products\/"},"modified":"2021-11-08T06:41:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T05:41:16","slug":"firms-under-fire-for-using-uk-influencers-to-push-nicotine-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/firms-under-fire-for-using-uk-influencers-to-push-nicotine-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms under fire for using UK influencers to push nicotine products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies accused of using social media influencers to entice young people to try nicotine products<\/p>\n<p>Posing expertly for Instagram snaps, a parade of young and beautiful DJs, models and socialites line up to endorse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/velo.unitedkingdom\/\">Velo<\/a>, a brand of flavoured nicotine pouches made by British American Tobacco (BAT).<\/p>\n<p>Between them, the 26 social media influencers boast 2.2m followers, and an audience that skews young, meaning they are hard to reach through traditional advertising channels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/nov\/08\/firms-under-fire-for-using-uk-influencers-to-push-nicotine-products\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c4aa091f98b35bc57294f399272eb3b0e0ee4230\/43_239_1358_815\/master\/1358.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1a9b927dc64ec92744135fc214b1f032\" title=\"Firms under fire for using UK influencers to push nicotine products\" \/>Companies accused of using social media influencers to entice young people to try nicotine products<br \/>\nPosing expertly for Instagram snaps, a parade of young and beautiful DJs, models and socialites line up to endorse Velo, a brand of flavoured nicotine pouches made by British American Tobacco (BAT).<br \/>\nBetween them, the 26 social media influencers boast 2.2m followers, and an audience that skews young, meaning they are hard to reach through traditional advertising channels. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies accused of using social media influencers to entice young people to try nicotine products Posing expertly for Instagram snaps, a parade of young and beautiful DJs, models and socialites line up to endorse Velo, a brand of flavoured nicotine pouches made by British American Tobacco (BAT). Between them, the 26 social media influencers boast &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/firms-under-fire-for-using-uk-influencers-to-push-nicotine-products\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firms under fire for using UK influencers to push nicotine products<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}