Conservative groups launch 6-figure campaign to defeat Dem crackdown on Zyn: 'Save our pouches'

Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier reacts to a new report that Zyn, a popular nicotine pouch company, is causing weight loss.

FIRST ON FOX: Two conservative nonprofits have teamed up to deploy resources at major sporting events across the country this summer to criticize and bring attention to a push by Democrats to crack down on nicotine pouches.

Americans for Consumer Protection and Building America’s Future have launched a six-figure campaign that began with a team on the ground at golf’s U.S. Open in North Carolina over the weekend as operatives with signs and promotional materials called on lawmakers to "Save Our Pouches."

"Nicotine pouches have been found to help adult smokers transition 'to safer alternatives.' Sweden has virtually eradicated usage of traditional cigarettes by ‘enabling this transition to safer alternatives’ and the country’s openness to allow the sale of smoke free alternatives (like nicotine pouches) to cigarettes," the nonprofits said in a press release.

"Instead of banning nicotine pouches, alternative products to cigarettes such as nicotine pouches have helped accelerate the rapid decrease of smoking rates among adults in Sweden."

EXPERTS SAY SCHUMER ATTACK ON ZYN IS ‘MORAL PANIC’ ABOUT SMOKE-FREE NICOTINE PRODUCTS THAT CAN ‘SAVE LIVES'

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for a federal crackdown on Zyn nicotine pouches earlier this year. Building America's Future has now launched a six-figure campaign to push back against the potential crackdown.

Operatives on the ground at the U.S. Open pushing the "Save Our Pouches" message passed out merchandise and collected signatures for a petition to stop the recent push to ban Zyn nicotine pouches.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,