Articles tagged with Jo Churchill
BBC highlights snus’s potential to help cut UK smoking rates
BBC highlights snus’s potential to help cut UK smoking rates
Swedish snus played a starring role in a recent BBC news segment exploring the smokeless tobacco product’s potential to help cut UK smoking rates. The segment also features Professor David Nutt, an expert in addiction at the Imperial College of London who ...
UK breaks from ‘flawed’ EU science with vow of evidence-based snus ban review
UK breaks from ‘flawed’ EU science with vow of evidence-based snus ban review
UK health minister Jo Churchill’s promise of an evidence-based snus ban review marks a significant turning point in acknowledging the questionable science behind the impact assessment used by the EU to justify...
New calls to overturn UK snus ban post-Brexit
New calls to overturn UK snus ban post-Brexit
The New Nicotine Alliance, a UK-based non-profit, has launched a campaign to overturn the UK snus ban, sending a proposal to key decision makers in a bid to legalise Swedish snus. The UK left the EU in Feb...
Snus after Brexit: positive signals from UK government
Snus after Brexit: positive signals from UK government
The British government has given the first indications that it might consider legalising the sale of snus after Brexit now that the country has left the European Union. In the run up to Brexit, a growing n...