Articles tagged with Swedish Experience

Opinions
Curt Enzell portion snus

Curt Enzell: The tea-loving scientist who spawned a snus revolution

Curt Enzell: The tea-loving scientist who spawned a snus revolution

For the latest in our Harm Reduction Heroes series, we tell the story of Curt Enzell, the little-known Swedish scientist who had an outsize impact on snus and modern oral nicotine products. And it all started with his love of tea. In 1967, readers of the S...

Health
smoke-free sweden

Sweden nears smoke-free status: a ‘public health miracle’

Sweden nears smoke-free status: a ‘public health miracle’

Sweden will soon be the first country in the world to reach smoke-free status. And lessons from Sweden's "public health miracle" can help inspire other countries, according to a new report on the “Swedish Exp...

Health
EU cancer conference

EU cancer summit snubs Swedes’ lung cancer success: ‘A missed opportunity’

EU cancer summit snubs Swedes’ lung cancer success: ‘A missed opportunity’

Sweden boasts the EU’s lowest lung cancer rates, thanks largely to the prevalence of Swedish snus. Yet a high-level EU cancer conference hosted in Stockholm as part of the Swedish EU presidency failed to highl...

Health
lars rutqvist quit smoking nicotine pouches

‘Nicotine alternatives help smokers quit cigarettes’

‘Nicotine alternatives help smokers quit cigarettes’

The world’s one billion smokers need options to help them quit smoking, says oncologist and researcher Lars Rutqvist, who explains why nicotine pouches can be a safer choice for those looking to quit cigarette...

Opinions
Martin Cullip vaping UK

Martin Cullip: Defending nicotine against the ‘nanny state’

Martin Cullip: Defending nicotine against the ‘nanny state’

In this instalment of our Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet talks to consumer advocate and former New Nicotine Alliance chair Martin Cullip about his participation in the grassroots movement that force...

Regulations
dutch flavour ban

Dutch flavour ban fears: Copy Sweden’s harm reduction model instead

Dutch flavour ban fears: Copy Sweden’s harm reduction model instead

A proposed Dutch flavour ban has tobacco harm reduction advocates scrambling, prompting questions as to why the Netherlands doesn’t instead follow Sweden’s example when it comes to regulating nicotine products...

Regulations
snus scandinavia

Snus ‘best thing that ever happened’ in Scandinavia: medical expert

Snus ‘best thing that ever happened’ in Scandinavia: medical expert

Dr. Kgosi Letlape, head of the Africa Medical Association, has hailed snus for its ability to help cut smoking rates across Scandinavia. He also expressed frustration at moves to ban Swedish snus and other red...

Health
Clive Bates

Beating cancer: Clive Bates on what the EU got wrong about tobacco

Beating cancer: Clive Bates on what the EU got wrong about tobacco

The European Commission recently released it’s much anticipated plan for beating cancer. While the goals are admirable, the EU Beating Cancer plan is plagued by a “fundamental error” when it comes to tobacco a...

Health

Snus Commission slams EU’s Beating Cancer Plan

Snus Commission slams EU’s Beating Cancer Plan

EU policymakers are guilty of spreading “fake news” about the true causes of cancer in their recently released Beating Cancer Plan, a Swedish group has claimed. In a sharply worded letter to the European Co...