Articles about Health
‘Snus has Sweden on track to be world’s first smoke-free country’
‘Snus has Sweden on track to be world’s first smoke-free country’
Only five percent of the Swedish population smokes, meaning the country may soon lay claim to being the world's first smoke-free country, argues Sweden’s Snus Commission. "The reason is snus," the group writes in a new debate article published in Swedish b...
Swedish MEP calls out Commission ‘dishonesty’ on snus and cancer
Swedish MEP calls out Commission ‘dishonesty’ on snus and cancer
Swedish MEP Sara Skyttedal believes the European Commission’s “ideological opposition” to all tobacco and nicotine leaves ignorant on the science on Swedish snus and cancer. And progress on the EU’s Beating Ca...
Nicotine misconceptions: Sudhanshu Patwardhan on causes, consequences, and potential cures
Nicotine misconceptions: Sudhanshu Patwardhan on causes, consequences, and potential cures
Snusforumet catches up with Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan to learn more about the harm reduction expert’s recent paper on nicotine pouches and why nicotine misconceptions are so widespread. Patwardhan – also kno...
Harm reduction key to solving Asia tobacco crisis: report
Harm reduction key to solving Asia tobacco crisis: report
Wider adoption of harm reduction strategies could help solve the Asia tobacco crisis, bringing important public health gains to a region with 60 percent of the world’s smokers and 4 million smoking related dea...
Japan cigarette sales plummet after launch of safer alternatives
Japan cigarette sales plummet after launch of safer alternatives
Offering a less-harmful alternative to deadly smoking has prompted a drop in to buy fewer cigarettes, sending cigarette sales down by 34 percent. “Japan has the makings of a great tobacco harm reduction ca...
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...
MEPs largely clueless about nicotine: survey
MEPs largely clueless about nicotine: survey
A recent survey of members of the European Parliament reveals at least a third of MEPs have no knowledge of new nicotine products. And up to one in five believe that some new nicotine products are as risky as ...
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...
Swedish MPs slammed for plan equating nicotine pouches with cigarettes
Swedish MPs slammed for plan equating nicotine pouches with cigarettes
A student organisation close to Sweden’s centre-right Moderate Party has sharply criticised two of the party’s MPs for seeking to tax tobacco-free nicotine pouches in the same way tobacco. Martin Berg...