Generic nicotine gum
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Watson Pharmaceuticals subsidiary Rugby Labs adds private label nicotine polacrilex gum in 2 mg, 4 mg doses to its OTC lineup, firm announces. Gum will roll out to independent drugstores, government and military accounts "within the next few weeks," Watson says. Generic firm decided to expand gum's distribution through Rugby due to increased manufacturing capacity. Company's smoking cessation gum, equivalent to GlaxoSmithKline's Nicorette, initially launched in 1999 to retail accounts including CVS, Walgreen's (1"The Tan Sheet" Aug. 16, 1999, p. 3)...